Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!lll-tis!oodis01!uplherc!sp7040!obie!wes 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 Lines: 38 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. -- /|\ Barnacle Wes @ Great Salt Lake Yacht Club, north branch / | \ @ J/22 #49, _d_J_i_n_n_i /__|__\ ___|____ "If I could just be sick, I'd be fine." ( / -- Joe Housely, owner of _E_p_i_d_e_m_i_c -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~