From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from d.mail.sonic.net (d.mail.sonic.net [64.142.111.50]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s2SLoSGi030468 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:50:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [10.0.1.3] ([66.201.46.179]) (authenticated bits=0) by d.mail.sonic.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s2SLoLgg016744 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:50:21 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 X-Mailinglist: mdocml-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.6 \(1510\)) Subject: Re: tbl(7) text blocks From: Guy Harris In-Reply-To: <20314.1395991264@cathet.us> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:50:23 -0700 Message-Id: References: <20314.1395991264@cathet.us> To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1510) X-Sonic-ID: C;XGWP9cK24xGIdNKVOBdzQA== M;iuS+9cK24xGIdNKVOBdzQA== Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by krisdoz.my.domain id s2SLoSGi030468 On Mar 28, 2014, at 12:21 AM, Anthony J. Bentley 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. :-)) -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv