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Re: [TUHS] [TUHS/groff] Provenance of .SB macro in man pages
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Re: [TUHS] [TUHS/groff] Provenance of .SB macro in man pages |
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Sat, 25 Jan 2020 13:13:44 -0600 (CST) |
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On Sun, 26 Jan 2020, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> I'm inlining my findings in rendered and source form below, but there's
> one feature I haven't been able to sort out--where did .SB (small bold)
> come from? The oldest groff release I can find online is 1.02 (June
> 1991), and .SB is already there, but I can't find it anywhere else. Is
> it a GNUism? Did it perhaps appear in a proprietary Unix first?
I see .SB used in the
C Manual - Language
Edited by R.P.A. Collinson
Document No: DOC/UNIX.K3.10/1
and UKC IO Library docs also from Collinson at Univ. of Kent.
as found in the usenix-78-uk1 tape.
Maybe that is uk1.tar at
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Spencer_Tapes/
I also see a SB Stymie Bold font in v7 troff.