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From: wes@obie.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Wanted: formatting under minix: nroff+me or TeX
Summary: TeX sources in C available...
Message-ID: <241@obie.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 88 14:21:35 GMT
References: <306@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Organization: Great Salt Lake Yacht Club, north branch
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Posted: Wed Jun  1 10:21:35 1988

In article <306@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>, lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Lee McLoughlin) writes:
> I'd like to be able to format up text under minix.  Yeah I know about
> roff.  But its not up to the task of coping with an "me" like macro
> package, no number registers or conditionals.  Most of my stuff (ie: thesis)
> is in "me" format
> 
> If anyone has managed to create a setup where they can format "me"
> documents or a reasonable subset I'd really appreciate it.

You might want to take a look at a book published by M&T Books (the
publishers of Dr. Dobb's Journal).  The author of Dr. Dobb's "C Chest"
column, Allen Holub, wrote an nroff-clone called NR as a series of
several columns, and the columns were gathered together in a book.

The book and an MS-DOS disk containing the source (in C, of course)
are $29.95 US.  The complete title is "NR: An Implementation of the
Unix NROFF Word Processor".

		M&T Books,
		501 Galveston Dr.
		Redwood City, CA 94063

In the US, you can call 800-533-4372 - they take VISA, MC, & AmEx.

> Failing that I'm supposed to get into TeX sometime, if I ever get
> any free time again!  Has anyone put up common-Tex under minix yet?

The Austin Code Works lists the source for TeX (Turbo TeX, they call
it) in their latest listings for $170.  You can get more info by
mailing to ....!uunet!acw!info.

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