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Re: [Groff] Blast from the past
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Peter Schaffter |
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Re: [Groff] Blast from the past |
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Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:18:33 -0500 |
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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 Courier, though. We had a Times-like
> wheel, and I had made a start on a driver for it when the job dried up.
> I probably would have had some issues with underlining.
Given the thread we had going a while back about underlining and
other text decorations, I'm inclined to say: Plus ça change...
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Peter Schaffter
http://www.schaffter.ca
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