From: gas <smurfasmurf@yahoo.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Troff macro package for patents
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 04:25:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <967166.27861.qm@web56202.mail.re3.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b09a11ee59bc4a7e0ffca799be8153d8@plan9.bell-labs.com>
--- dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com skrev:
> The patent typing time well antedated even nroff, and I don't
> remember what primitive macros were used. The main thing Ossanna
> did was to add two built-ins, .jo1 and .jo2; the first would produce
> line
> numbering as needed in the description part
> (number each successive line as on the page), while
> the second would start restart the numbering at each new
> claim.
>
> Could have been done with macros later.
>
> Dennis
>
OK. They seem to have been decrufted from the source; nothing turns
up with "grep jo" anyway. Better leave it to the archaeologists, I
suppose.
Thanks!
/ Greger
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2007-06-08 0:35 dmr
2007-06-08 2:25 ` gas [this message]
2007-06-08 2:54 ` Russ Cox
2007-06-08 4:46 dmr
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