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Re: [Groff] Blast from the past


From: Steffen Nurpmeso
Subject: Re: [Groff] Blast from the past
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 21:14:26 +0100
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Heinz-Jürgen Oertel <address@hidden> 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/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/751318.pdf
 |
 |I like this statement:
 |"ROFF is a computer program which produces esthetically pleasing \
 |manuscripts from punched card source texts." 

..and i hoped that it wasn't used for producing the document in
question, seldom have i seen such huge gaps in between words, it's
almost unreadable (in fact i gave up after a few pages)!

--steffen



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