This directory contains the text of the book Unix Text Processing
(UTP) by Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly.

UTP was originally published by Hayden Books (which was acquired by
Howard W. Sams before the book was actually published).  Recently, the
authors have released the book under the Open Books Project; scanned
pages are available in PBM (Portable BitMap) and PDF formats.  The
original troff markup is lost.

Some members of the groff mailing list have decided to transcribe the
book into text, and possibly modernize the book later on.  Somehow or
another, Larry Kollar managed to open his mouth too often (not
surprising to anyone who knows him) and he got the job of coordinating
the transcription project.

The Game Plan

Simple: get everything into text first, markup later.  Most of the
text is already available marked-up, and the rest is on the way.
The latest sources are available at http://www.alltel.net/~kollar/utp/.

This directory contains:

README

Makefile	Makefile to build the book.  It contains the targets:
		   all - build book (ps/book.ps) and macro
		         documentation (ps/utp.ps).
		   book - build ps/book.ps only.
		   clean - remove build results
		   dist - create a distribution tarball
README		This file.
app*.t		Appendix sources
ch*.t		Chapter sources
massageps.el	Emacs macros for building the final PostScript.
page.awk	Auxiliary script.
utp.mac		A set of macros, based on ms, that we can use
		for marking up the typed or scanned text.  Jon Snader
		cooked them up.
utp.t		Source of description of UTP macros.

The utp.mac package is derived from the macros used to typeset the
original book (and documented in Chapter 17 and Appendix F.  The tar
file consists of utp.mac, the actual macros, and utp.t, which
describes how to use the macros.

Meanwhile, Meg McRoberts has graciously volunteered to edit the book.
While some of us have fixed a few typos as we found them, we may well
have introduced a few more.  Michael Hobgood and Andreas Kähäri are
handling proofreading chores.