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Tim Jowers wrote:
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<pre wrap="">No need for .dork files! Linux can do it all. [...]
BTW, one of the original - if not the original - uses of Unix was in publishing.
Rockon open source,
Tim
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Go 'runoff'!, no I mean roff, no typesetting runoff (troff), or
line-printer runoff (nroff), and the Berkeley Hershey Fonts (for each
type size and resolution) up against AT&T's Documenter's Workbench
(DWB), no then Xroff with their Bitstream font importing, or how about
GNU runoff (groff)? I know! TeX and LaTeX! And who can forget the ME
macros, or MM, or EQ, or TABLE, or Man macros (hence the format of
current man pages)?<br>
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Yep, you bring up some old memories of publishing in UNIX. I even have
my original resume after college in troff/ME/Printronix format.<br>
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Brian Kernigan once told me he invented troff (from Multics "runoff")
just to typeset the documentation for the UNIX and C language
endeavors. In the early 1990's I ran into a version RunOff on a DEC
VAX running VMS, that still accepted the late 1970's markup commands.<br>
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And you know ... troff markup isn't that different from HTML. Wasn't
SGML inspired from the TeX or troff markup?<br>
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Scott G. Hall
Raleigh, NC, USA
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ScottGHall@BellSouth.Net">ScottGHall@BellSouth.Net</a></pre>
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