From: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: tbl(7) text blocks
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:50:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AFDBDC0C-36BD-49A2-99B5-1DBA06755406@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20314.1395991264@cathet.us>
On Mar 28, 2014, at 12:21 AM, Anthony J. Bentley <anthony@cathet.us> wrote:
> Groff's tbl(1) manual has a section named "Text blocks."
FYI, it dates back well before Groff (and well before the GNU project and well before C++...):
http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/v7vol2a.pdf
Look for "TBL - Tbl — A Program to Format Tables".
(For fun, also see
http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/v7vol2b.pdf
and look for "Lex – A Lexical Analyzer Generator", co-written by Mike Lesk and some guy who I think is at Google now. :-))
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-28 7:21 Anthony J. Bentley
2014-03-28 21:30 ` Ingo Schwarze
2014-03-28 23:37 ` Ingo Schwarze
2014-03-29 0:02 ` Anthony J. Bentley
2014-03-28 21:50 ` Guy Harris [this message]
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