PS:
Total length of the document is 126 pages (all of chapter 5). I have not tracked time exactly, but it took more than 60 and less than 100 hours, spread across 4.5 weeks in a three month period: 3 weeks starting at the end of march and another 1.5 now.

Overall I am satisfied with this, given the variation in layout involved. Significantly less than an hour per page on average, which is what I was aiming for. For reference, the final pages of tables took about 10 minutes per page to type up, less when there was copy/paste involved.

What took long was of course overhead in setting up macros for some particular structure, and wrestling troff when there was some wrinkle. On the latter, I did like working with troff, but there were a good number of frustrating moments when it behaved differently from what I expected and I had to puzzle out why and/or how to work around it. I got the feeling that there were some leaky abstractions going on and sometimes I just didn't have the full picture of how it actually operated under the hood.

Anyway, still have to make a title page and then I'll have to put the PDF up on the web somewhere, I guess! :)

done! still haven't decided whether to add the "prison bars" or not. but managed to replicate the original's page and line breaks pretty exactly. this needed just a few tweaks here and there.

i had a choice to make here: arrange it so that every item ends up in the same place on the same page as in the original, even if a bunch of it doesn't make any sense?
i decided to do so. the benefit would be that someone familiar with the original table (which i am guessing is a few people), for all its terrible layout, would not be confused by looking at a different table that would still have had pretty bad layout.

so any changes made to the table cannot change the relative positions of things, unless or until i rebuild the whole damn thing as part of a (hypothecial) larger effort.

there are a few errata items that can be fixed without changing the layout. not in this first edition, though. keeping all the typos and stuff, so i can make a clean diff just for them.

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not far now, 13 pages to go.

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@moertel It has arrived and I do love it! Thank you for making it. :D

Papierartefakte und so. <3

home stretch!
but ugh, it's >20 pages of this.

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wha?

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