From: Jaap Akkerhuis <jaapna@xs4all.nl>
To: Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Troff to ps
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:19:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0D7B784A-1F7E-4377-A307-9C457E8A8C1D@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202007270531.06R5V2OB030883@freefriends.org>
>> When was dpost born?
>>
>> N.
>
> Eighth Edition, as part of ditroff. It wouldn't help on 2.11BSD anyway,
> as dpost reads the ascii intermediate form from ditroff, not the C/A/T
> typesetter codes from original troff.
I don't know when it was born. It came from the Documentors Work
Bench (DWB). The DWB used various to create the appropriate font
tables using the target postscript interpreter the fonts were used.
As far as I know, dpost and these tools were created by Rich Drechsler.
jaap
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-27 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-26 14:56 Will Senn
2020-07-26 15:31 ` arnold
2020-07-26 15:35 ` arnold
2020-07-26 16:15 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-26 17:11 ` arnold
2020-07-26 18:03 ` Clem Cole
2021-01-27 5:24 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-01-28 0:19 ` John Gilmore
2021-01-28 1:25 ` Clem Cole
2021-01-28 1:59 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-28 3:19 ` John Gilmore
2021-01-28 12:58 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-26 19:05 ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-07-26 22:39 ` Noel Hunt
2020-07-27 5:31 ` arnold
2020-07-27 9:19 ` Jaap Akkerhuis [this message]
2020-07-27 11:07 ` Brad Spencer
2020-07-27 15:58 ` Will Senn
2020-07-26 15:33 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-27 15:53 ` Will Senn
2020-07-26 18:09 ` Al Kossow
2020-07-26 23:37 Norman Wilson
2020-07-27 15:08 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2020-07-28 11:33 Doug McIlroy
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