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- From: israel@risky.Convergent.COM (Paul Israel)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: Troff and thesis-writing (Help !)
- Message-ID: <10693@risky.Convergent.COM>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 16:23:13 GMT
- References: <41375@ogicse.ogi.edu>
- Organization: Unisys Unix Systems Group, San Jose, CA
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- From article <41375@ogicse.ogi.edu>, by natarsu@mse.ogi.edu (N. Sukumar):
- >
- > Is there any on-line help for troff (text
- > formatter), especially in regard to thesis-writing ?
- > There are macros for preparing the table of contents;
- > how about list of figs/tables ? Would like to get the hang of
- > page numbering (Roman/Italics) at the bottom-center. I
- > doubt if any text formatter can be worse than troff :-)
-
- Most of the online help you're likely to find consists of the
- man pages used for invoking the troff/tbl/eqn/pic programs. As far as
- using them is concerned, you're best bet is to track down a Unix user's
- supplementary manual which provides the necessary tutorials and
- reference guides. My personal favorite is the BSD4.3 Unix User's
- Manual Supplementary Documents (USD), although my edition does not
- include a description of pic. If you're very lucky, some of these
- documents may be online on your system, especially if it's BSD.
-
- As far as thesis writing is concerned, I've always found the -ms
- macro package to be the most useful. I would think it is possible to
- use the table of contents macros they provide to also generate a
- list of figures; if not, I suppose you could always generate one using
- a tbl construct.
-
- I don't know how to number pages with an italics font, but to generate
- Roman numerals on the bottom of the page, you could do this:
-
- .af PN i
- .ds CF "- % -
-
- Perhaps something like this might work for italics:
-
- .af PN i
- .ds CF "- \fI%\fR -
-
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