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
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
>
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
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
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
> 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
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
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
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
>
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
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
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
> |>
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
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
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
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
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