From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 15 18:39:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA12907 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 18:39:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA12886 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 18:39:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id NAA02500; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 13:09:10 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19971216130910.45482@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 13:09:10 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: mlduke@concentric.net Cc: Alex , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Writing/Publishing FreeBSD References: <19971216112010.31703@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from mlduke@concentric.net on Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 06:37:49PM -0900 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Dec 15, 1997 at 06:37:49PM -0900, mlduke@concentric.net wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>>> 64 MB will do. >>> >>> Sometimes I wonder, perhaps it's just my window manager eating up >>> ram. > >> I wrote "The Complete FreeBSD" with Emacs and groff. The thought of >> having to do it with a GUI word processor terrifies me. >> > > Was it published, i.e., printed, with Emacs and groff?? Yes. The output from groff is what went into the phototypesetter. To quote the preface: How this book was written This book was written and typeset almost entirely with tools supplied as standard with the FreeBSD system. The text of this book was written with the GNU Emacs editor, and it was formatted with the GNU groff text formatter, version 1.10, and some heavily modified mm macros. The man pages were formed with an and doc macros, slightly modified to produce a table of contents entry, an index entry, and correct page sizing. The process was performed under FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT. Even the development versions of FreeBSD are stable enough to perform heavy-duty work like professional text formatting. The source files for this book are kept under RCS, the Revision Control System (see page 1132). Here are the RCS Version IDs for the chapters of this particular book. If you have a comment about a particular chapter, it will help if you can tell me the version ID. Greg