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Re: [groff] Design and Implementation of *roff
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Pierre-Jean Fichet |
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Re: [groff] Design and Implementation of *roff |
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Mon, 03 Dec 2018 09:47:23 +0100 |
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Ted Harding <address@hidden> wrote:
> So, happily inspired, they developed the
> text-formatter runoff (--> roff) on Unix, and then
> demonstrated to Bell Labs how good it was at formatting
> structured documents -- in particular legal documents.
> At this point Bell Labs woke up, and adopted Unix!
Do we have any copy or source of these early troff formatted legal
documents? Was there a macro dedicated for that task?
Pierre-Jean.