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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] off topic: troff book
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Date: Tue,  9 Jan 2001 10:54:55 +0100
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i think doug is right.  knuth wanted tex and metafont
'cos he didn't like the typography of TAOCP.