Re: [Groff] Blast from the past

2015-02-12 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 10 February 2015 at 22:56:13 +, Deri James wrote: > On Tue 10 Feb 2015 20:53:42 Jones, Larry wrote: >> "ROFF is a program which generates microfilm and 7-track binary >> magnetic tape for off line processing on an IBM Magnetic Tape / >> Selectric Typewriter..." > > I loved my select

Re: [Groff] Blast from the past

2015-02-11 Thread Dale Snell
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 20:53:42 +, in message f9035a933a372f4d85559b6b253dc408f86e8...@usslmmbx003.net.plm.eds.com, Jones, Larry wrote: > Dale Snell writes: > > > > Same here. Alas, "This report is itself an example of a ROFF > > generated manuscript." Adding insult to injury, it appears to >

Re: [Groff] Blast from the past

2015-02-11 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015, Larry Kollar wrote: > The spacing comment reminds me of when I was using nroff in 1983. > We had a NEC daisy-wheel printer that could do arbitrary motions, > at least horizontally. I cobbled an nroff “driver” (a compiled struct, IIRC) > to even out the word spacing. Still Cour

Re: [Groff] Blast from the past

2015-02-11 Thread Doug McIlroy
Clearly the miltary ROFF borrowed a name and many basic features from roff on Multics. But EQROFF is an intereting innovation. Its output style is still used by modern math systems like Maple. (I'm glad, though, that Cherry and Kernighan hadn't seen it when they set out to do eqn.) There was also

Re: [Groff] Blast from the past

2015-02-11 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Heinz-Jürgen Oertel wrote: |Am Dienstag, 10. Februar 2015, 22:56:13 schrieb Deri James: |> Nowadays I use the dasher program for |> all writing, except coding. | |I had a look at dasher. Interesting, but needs a lot of training. |Thanks for the hint. I did too and played a bit with the app

Re: [Groff] Blast from the past

2015-02-11 Thread Larry Kollar
> Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > > Heinz-Jürgen Oertel wrote: > |Am Montag, 9. Februar 2015, 16:19:51 schrieb Peter Schaffter: > |> Groffers -- > |> > |> I don't see any mention of this in the list archives, and it's too > |> wonderful to miss. If you want a glimpse of days gone by, have a > |> lo

Re: [Groff] Blast from the past

2015-02-11 Thread Heinz-Jürgen Oertel
Am Dienstag, 10. Februar 2015, 22:56:13 schrieb Deri James: > Nowadays I use the dasher program for > all writing, except coding. I had a look at dasher. Interesting, but needs a lot of training. Thanks for the hint. Heinz

Re: [Groff] Blast from the past

2015-02-10 Thread Deri James
On Tue 10 Feb 2015 20:53:42 Jones, Larry wrote: > "ROFF is a program which generates microfilm and 7-track binary magnetic > tape for off line processing on an IBM Magnetic Tape / Selectric > Typewriter..." I loved my selectric. IBM donated it to me when I was at school since no one, including m

Re: [Groff] Blast from the past

2015-02-10 Thread Heinz-Jürgen Oertel
Am Dienstag, 10. Februar 2015, 20:43:10 schrieb Jones, Larry: > Steffen Nurpmeso writes: > > > > Heinz-Jürgen Oertel wrote: > > |Am Montag, 9. Februar 2015, 16:19:51 schrieb Peter Schaffter: > > |> Groffers -- > > |> > > |> I don't see any mention of this in the list archives, and it's too >

Re: [Groff] Blast from the past

2015-02-10 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Heinz-Jürgen Oertel wrote: |Am Montag, 9. Februar 2015, 16:19:51 schrieb Peter Schaffter: |> Groffers -- |> |> I don't see any mention of this in the list archives, and it's too |> wonderful to miss. If you want a glimpse of days gone by, have a |> look at |> |> http://www.dtic.mil/dt

Re: [Groff] Blast from the past

2015-02-10 Thread Jones, Larry
Dale Snell writes: > > Same here. Alas, "This report is itself an example of a ROFF > generated manuscript." Adding insult to injury, it appears to > have been printed on a (*shudder*) chain printer. Note the > varying baseline heights. "ROFF is a program which generates microfilm and 7-track

Re: [Groff] Blast from the past

2015-02-10 Thread Jones, Larry
Steffen Nurpmeso writes: > > Heinz-Jürgen Oertel wrote: > |Am Montag, 9. Februar 2015, 16:19:51 schrieb Peter Schaffter: > |> Groffers -- > |> > |> I don't see any mention of this in the list archives, and it's too > |> wonderful to miss. If you want a glimpse of days gone by, have a > |>

Re: [Groff] Blast from the past

2015-02-10 Thread Dale Snell
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 21:14:26 +0100, in message 20150210201426.fjx1phoo%sdao...@yandex.com, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > Heinz-Jürgen Oertel wrote: > |Am Montag, 9. Februar 2015, 16:19:51 schrieb Peter Schaffter: > |> Groffers -- > |> > |> I don't see any mention of this in the list archives, an

Re: [Groff] Blast from the past

2015-02-10 Thread Heinz-Jürgen Oertel
Am Montag, 9. Februar 2015, 16:19:51 schrieb Peter Schaffter: > Groffers -- > > I don't see any mention of this in the list archives, and it's too > wonderful to miss. If you want a glimpse of days gone by, have a > look at > > http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/751318.pdf > I like this

Re: [Groff] Blast from the past

2015-02-09 Thread Ted Harding
On 09-Feb-2015 21:19:51 Peter Schaffter wrote: > Groffers -- > > I don't see any mention of this in the list archives, and it's too > wonderful to miss. If you want a glimpse of days gone by, have a > look at > > http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/751318.pdf > > -- > Peter Schaffter > h

[Groff] Blast from the past

2015-02-09 Thread Peter Schaffter
Groffers -- I don't see any mention of this in the list archives, and it's too wonderful to miss. If you want a glimpse of days gone by, have a look at http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/751318.pdf -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca