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Originally Posted by j.p.s
troff is a relatively early unix document processing language. Some of the books written by early unix developers at Bell Labs and elsewhere were done in troff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troff
A list of books written in troff is at
https://www.troff.org/pubs.html
Many of these were published by the likes of Addison-Wesley, McGraw-Hill, Prentice-Hall, and O'Reilly. What was delivered to the publishers was camera ready. |
So basically, if the book was a little bit newer, he may have used TeX or LaTeX instead of troff? Should ask him about it.
