Re: [Groff] [groff/patch] transparent gzip

[Rob Scovell]

I believe the manual, however beautifully formed the copperplate letters 
were, was written in an obscure invented language with a novel 16-letter 
alphabet, and was therefore unintelligible to all but a few zealots. I 
understand that this language required a period before all verbs, which 
were normally only two letters long. Over the course of the decades, this 
language lingered on in various guises until it came into its own as a 
typesetting language. Who knows where it will go next in its long history?

On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 01:30  AM, Stewart Russell wrote:

> Alejandro López-Valencia wrote:
> > Oops! 1985! (Man(1) doesn't work on Babbages's machine ;).
>
> actually, it did -- the tabulator printed, very elegantly
>
> *** ***    ******     *******   *******    **       **
>  *   *      *   **    *  *  *    *    *     **     **
>  *  *       *    *       *       *          **     **
>  * *        *   **       *       *   *      * *   * *
>  ***        *****        *       *****      * *   * *
>  * **       *  *         *       *   *      *  * *  *
>  *  **      *   *        *       *          *  * *  *
>  *   **     *    *       *       *          *   *   *
> ***  *** * ***   ** *   ***   * ****     * ***  *  *** *
>
> if a user error was detected. The K is thought to stand for 'Kindly'.
>
>  Stewart
>
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