Document Formatting and Typesetting on the UNIX System ^{2nd Ed.}

This book contains a general discussion about formatting and an extensive discussion about the UNIX system document formatting facilities. One chapter each is devoted to specifying the document format (MM), and each of the tools for specifying tables (TBL), figures (PIC), and equations (EQN). Other chapters summarize the UNIX system formatter TROFF and the WRITER'S WORKBENCH^™ Software. And finally the book contains several MM templates for a variety of documents (such as books), description of UNIX system typesetting commands, a glossary and an annotated bibliography.

1. Introduction
1. Document Format
2. The UNIX Document Formatting and Writing Tools
3. Using mm in Preference to troff
4. Using the Document Formatting and Writing Tools
5. The Typesetting Commands
2. Specifying The Document Format
1. An Example of Document Formatting
2. Basics
3. Fonts
4. Point Size and Vertical Spacing
5. Document Structure
6. Document Definitions, Style and Appearance Parameters
7. Document Prelude
8. Document Body
9. Document Postlude
10. Business Letters
11. Advanced Aspects of mm
12. Interfacing with troff Preprocessors
13. Interaction of troff with mm
14. mm Command-Line Options
15. Hints for Managing Large Documents
16. Checking for Errors: checkmm
17. A Final Example
18. Exercises
3. Specifying Tables
1. An Example tbl Specification
2. Format of a Table Specification
3. Specification of the Global Table Format
4. Data Format Specification
5. Table Data
6. Tables with Groups of Repeated Rows
7. troff Instructions
8. Interface with mm
9. Checking for Errors: tbl
10. Restrictions on Table Specifications
11. Examples
12. Exercises
4. Specifying Figures
1. An Example pic Specification
2. Format of a Figure Specification
3. Primitive Objects — Basics
4. Moves
5. Lines and Arrows
6. Boxes
7. Circles
8. Ellipsis
9. Arcs
10. Splines
11. Text
12. Invisible Objects
13. Control Instructions
14. Macros
15. Blocks
16. Including 
17. Figure Size
18. Interface with mm and eqn
19. Checking for errors: pic
20. Recent Changes to pic
21. Exercises
5. Specifying Formulas (Equations)
1. An Example eqn Specification
2. Specifying Equations
3. Basics
4. Subscript(Superscripts
5. Fractions
6. Square Roots
7. Associating Limits With Items
8. Large Brackets for Grouping
9. eqn Definitions
10. Aligning Equations
11. Piles
12. Matrices
13. Diacritics
14. Local Motions
15. Labeling Equations
16. eqn Environment
17. Operator Precedence and Association
18. Special Characters and Symbols
19. eqn Interface With tbl, pic and mm
20. eqn Restrictions
21. Checking for Errors: eqn and checkmm
22. Recent Changes to eqn
23. Examples
24. Exercises
6. troff/nroff — The Formatters
1. Stand-Alone troff Instructions
2. Escape Sequences for Characters, Indicators and Functions
3. Naming Conventions for Non-ASCII Characters
4. Recent Changes to troff
7. WRITER'S WORKBENCH Software
1. Overview
2. proofr
3. prose
4. Example
5. Conclusions
8. Examples Document Templates
1. Letters
2. Papers
3. Books
4. Exercises

1. More Document Formatting Tools
1. ideal
2. grap
3. ms Page-Layout Macros
4. mv Viewgraph Macros
5. refer
2. Document Formatting Commands
1. checkmm (mm and eqn Error Checker)
2. double (Double Word Finder)
3. eqn and neqn (Format Mathematical Text)
4. mm (Print Documents Formatted Using mm)
5. mmt and mvt (Format Documents, Viewgraphs and Slides)
6. nroff (Format Text)
7. pic (Draw Figures)
8. spell (Find Spelling Errors)
9. tbl (Format Tables)
10. tc (troff Output Interpreter)
11. troff (Text Formatting and Typesetting)
12. wwb (WRITER'S WORKBENCH Softare)
3. Some Font Samples

The authorative text on troff and friends. Should probably be read by some book authors today, so that they learned how to write.