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From: gunnarr@acm.org (Gunnar Ritter)
Subject: [TUHS] papers on the -mm macros?
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:25:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4412dded.NzKo0mGuM23J//Yf%gunnarr@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060309022832.F98411@dynamite.narpes.com>

"A. Wik" <aw at aw.gs> wrote:

> I've found the documentation for most of the major
> troff preprocessors and macros packages, but I can't
> seem to find anything but occasional references to a
> paper on the "Programmer's Memorandum Macros" (troff -mm)
> by Smith and Mashey.

The source code for this paper had been available as part
of the System III distribution under the old (unfree) SCO
license.

In case you had applied for that license, and you still
have an old PUPS archive CD at hand, you can find it in
Distributions/usdl/SysIII/sys3.tar.gz.

You will not be able to recover the original layout since
PostScript font metrics are quite different from CAT ones,
but Heirloom troff produces readable output at least.

	Gunnar



  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-11 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-09  3:15 A. Wik
2006-03-11 14:25 ` Gunnar Ritter [this message]
2006-05-25 19:10 Aharon Robbins

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