From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com)
Subject: [TUHS] TROFF made trivial
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 05:54:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201711211254.vALCsKKY007445@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efosgfh2.fsf@gmail.com>
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Leah Neukirchen <leah at vuxu.org> asked:
> >> I found this paper by bwk referenced in the Unix manpages,
> >> in v4 as: TROFF Made Trivial (unpublished),
> >> in v5 as: TROFF Made Trivial (internal memorandom),
> >> also in the v6 "Unix Reading List",
> >> but not anymore in v7.
> >>
> >> Anyone have a copy or a scan?
Warner (I think):
> > Is it what became known as "A TROFF Tutorial" in Volume 2 of the v7
> > manual and was available as early as October 11, 1976 as referenced by
> > Ossana in NROFF⁄TROFF User’s Manual as:
> >
> > 1.
> >
> > [5] B. W. Kernighan, A TROFF Tutorial, Bell Laboratories internal
> > memorandum
I asked Brian off-list. His answer:
> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 06:24:22 -0500 (EST)
> From: Brian Kernighan <bwk at CS.Princeton.EDU>
> To: arnold at skeeve.com
> Subject: Re: "TROFF made trivial"?
>
> That's almost surely what became the Troff tutorial. I will poke
> around to see if I have a paper copy.
I he finds one, I'll pass it on.
Arnold
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-21 12:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-20 21:55 Leah Neukirchen
2017-11-20 22:00 ` Warner Losh
2017-11-20 22:41 ` Will Senn
2017-11-21 9:15 ` Leah Neukirchen
2017-11-21 12:54 ` arnold [this message]
2017-11-21 18:43 ` Mutiny
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