[Resurrecting an old thread to provide some input from Dave Horsfall] On 2019-Apr-11 06:52:08 +0200, Fabio Scotoni wrote: >On 4/11/19 1:19 AM, Bakul Shah wrote: >> On Apr 10, 2019, at 3:24 PM, Clem Cole wrote: >>> >>> [...] is the Lions book including PS and PDF and in the original troff thankfully. >> >> May be someone will be inspired enough to convert this to troff? ... >Thus, the first step would be to reverse engineer the troff macros used >to typeset the book. >Then the TeX sources would need to be converted to those troff macros; >this can possibly be automated entirely. >Then the matching version of troff would need to be used to typeset it >(likely via apout and V6 or V7 troff). >Finally, the C/A/T typesetter output would need to be converted to >PostScript or PDF (either Adobe's psroff or Chris Lewis's psroff from >comp.unix.sources can likely help with that; I got Lewis's psroff to >work a while ago, but it's pretty brittle). On 2019-Jun-26 11:34:31 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote: >'Twas NROFF on the CSU's LA120 (I should know; I ran the Unix section), >with draft versions on a Duckwriter which I helped proof-read. Don't know >whether custom macros were used; quite likely, as he was that sort of >bloke. After all, he was a Comp Sci lecturer (one of mine!) and if you >find yourself writing the same lines over and over again... > >Going by that snippet of the thread (too much to follow, as I'm still >figuring out from which lists I've been bounced) it would be a heroic >effort to reverse-engineer it, and quite likely not worth the trouble. > >The original source would've been at Elec Eng, but long gone by now. > >As for TROFF, well, I'm not aware that UNSW has a C/A/T :-) > >Oh, the LA120 had a single-use nylon ribbon, I think, not fabric, hence >the somewhat high quality (I no longer have my Lions books to check; lost >after several house moves). -- Peter Jeremy