From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: leah@vuxu.org (Leah Neukirchen) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 10:15:21 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] TROFF made trivial In-Reply-To: <943d7158-b639-9c4a-28a8-b84f8997a801@gmail.com> (Will Senn's message of "Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:41:14 -0600") References: <87ine4haxg.fsf@gmail.com> <943d7158-b639-9c4a-28a8-b84f8997a801@gmail.com> Message-ID: <87efosgfh2.fsf@gmail.com> Will Senn writes: > On 11/20/17 4:00 PM, Warner Losh wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Leah Neukirchen > > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> 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 in v4 as: TROFF Made Trivial (unpublished), 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? >> >> >> Or is this some subtle in-joke they got tired of explaining :) >> >> Warner > > 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 Ah, very good, thank you. I have a copy of Volume 2. I guess the original title was deemed inapplicable. :) -- Leah Neukirchen http://leah.zone