From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [IPv6:2600:3c01:e000:146::1]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DDAB210AD for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2024 12:08:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A47C43DFE; Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:08:27 +1000 (AEST) Received: from freefriends.org (frenzy.freefriends.org [198.99.81.75]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ADD9343DFB for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:08:15 +1000 (AEST) X-Envelope-From: arnold@skeeve.com Received: from freefriends.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefriends.org (8.16.1/8.16.1) with ESMTPS id 45SA7vPk514952 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:07:57 -0600 Received: (from arnold@localhost) by freefriends.org (8.16.1/8.14.7/Submit) id 45SA7ube514951; Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:07:56 -0600 From: arnold@skeeve.com Message-Id: <202406281007.45SA7ube514951@freefriends.org> X-Authentication-Warning: frenzy.freefriends.org: arnold set sender to arnold@skeeve.com using -f Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:07:56 -0600 To: tuhs@tuhs.org, g.branden.robinson@gmail.com, falcon@freecalypso.org References: <20240625161336.loxy43ra3n67gbg6@illithid> <20240625191539.D35A33740343@freecalypso.org> In-Reply-To: <20240625191539.D35A33740343@freecalypso.org> User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID-Hash: UG3EUTH2NPP6FIPM6KM7MIT4QCKA6L2J X-Message-ID-Hash: UG3EUTH2NPP6FIPM6KM7MIT4QCKA6L2J X-MailFrom: arnold@skeeve.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: groff@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Documenting a set of functions with -man List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Hi. > G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > > So maybe they had access to a CAT-8 after all, and used a whopping 5 > > different font plates. Or they used a CAT-4 and had to compose many > > pages in two passes. That would have been mightily tedious. Mychaela Falconia wrote: > Are you certain that the bold in that book is real B font and not .bd > construct? I am not sure about the full K&R book, but the C Reference > Manual doc in vol 2 seems to have been troff'ed with .bd for bold > (while keepting R, I, S and adding CW), ditto for the UNIX Programming > doc in the same volume that similarly uses CW for program listings. The use of .bd is indeed the case. I asked. :-) >From BWK, forwarded by permission. > Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:02:06 -0400 (EDT) > From: Brian Kernighan > To: Aharon Robbins > Subject: Re: can you comment > > I can't find the macros we used, though I have the text itself. > I know that there were only 4 font positions, period. One of > those definitely was S, the special font. I think that we > mounted the CW font in position 3 for programs, and we used > the .bd command to simulate bold by overstriking with a small > offset. Joe Ossanna had added that to troff as a favor not > long before he died. > > The source for the second edition of Programming Style, which > dates from about the same time, is consistent with this. > > On Fri, 28 Jun 2024, Aharon Robbins wrote: > > > https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2024-June/030267.html > > > > Question has arisen as to how you got more than 4 font families > > when setting K&R-1. > > > > Arnold