From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Documenting a set of functions with -man
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 08:51:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKH6PiVHkOfua8TSgn0Fj1f-JszPZud61o00xdzTChJwH6frcQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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> The lack of a monospaced font is, I suspect, due either to
> physical limitations of the C/A/T phototypesetter[1] or fiscal
> limitations--no budget in that department to buy photographic
> plates for Courier.
Since the C/A/T held only four fonts, there was no room for
Courier. But when we moved beyond that typesetter, inertia
kept the old ways . Finally, in v9, I introduced the fixed-width
"literal font", L, in -man and said goodbye to boldface in
synopses. By then, though, Research Unix was merely a
local branch of the Unix evolutionary tree, so the literal-font
gene never spread.
Doug
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next reply other threads:[~2024-06-25 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-25 12:51 Douglas McIlroy [this message]
2024-06-25 16:13 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-06-25 19:15 ` Mychaela Falconia
2024-06-25 19:27 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-06-28 10:07 ` arnold
2024-06-28 19:38 ` G. Branden Robinson
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