A comprehensive guide to the text editing, formatting, and document preparation tools with the UNIX operating system, from the author of the widely-used The UNIX Operating system. The first chapter acts as a guide to the material in the succeeding 11 chapters. Goes on to cover the UNIX system's most popular text editor: vi; how vi can be retrofitted as a rudimentary word processor for simple jobs; the standard formatters nroff and troff; and the two most popular macro packages, -ms and -mm. Also discusses eqn (the first preprocessor), an aid for typesetting mathematics; The tbl preprocessor, for typesetting tables; refer, an aid for typesetting and managing references. The UNIX system's latest preprocessor, pic, an aid for typesetting line drawings, is also explored, as well as various standard UNIX utility programs that aid document preparation.

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