lex & yacc, Second Edition By John Levine, Tony Mason, Doug Brown
October 1992
Pages: 384

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Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animal featured on the cover of lex & yacc is a Victoria crowned pigeon, one of the largest members of the pigeon family. Unlike other birds, the crowned pigeon drinks water by immersing its bill and sucking. Incubation of the eggs (generally two) is shared by these monogamous birds, the male warming them by day, the female by night. The Victoria crowned pigeon is light and dark blue with purple markings and a fanlike head crest of lacy, light blue feathers. Though protected by law in its native country of New Guinea, it is nonetheless an easy target for hunters for its plumage and is in danger of extinction. Unix and its attendant programs can be unruly beasts. Nutshell Handbooks(R) help you tame them.

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Edie Freedman designed this cover and the entire Unix bestiary that appears on other Nutshell Handbooks. The beasts themselves are adapted from 19th-century engravings from the Dover Pictorial Archive. The cover layout was produced with QuarkXPress 3.1 using the ITC Garamond font.

The inside layout was fomatted in sqtroff using ITC Garamond Light and ITC Garamond Book fonts, and was designed by Edie Freeman. The figures were created in Aldus Freehand 3.1 by Chris Reilley.

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