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=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,HTML_MESSAGE,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 3D7422641E for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2024 14:52:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E52F84284E; Tue, 25 Jun 2024 22:52:06 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-ua1-x933.google.com (mail-ua1-x933.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::933]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D89D542849 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2024 22:51:54 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-ua1-x933.google.com with SMTP id a1e0cc1a2514c-80f4f1e7cc3so1500021241.3 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2024 05:51:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dartmouth.edu; s=google1; t=1719319913; x=1719924713; darn=tuhs.org; h=to:subject:message-id:date:from:mime-version:from:to:cc:subject :date:message-id:reply-to; bh=rOfsk8mi6aSletCp64JOiu8XBhwssGNnz4n+NP8Yyus=; b=h4Mc37+em3DDzDS+DOnQPLrQWILpE5qY7/9vZsBwv5d2icAuHlByKqLBCdrpLSzkTR RdpyLwUeZxwxO29tys8ytmGN9uMEcrjXtshU6KNkTgWVR5dSlsZbBWbtlP9UR6NQkx1l /Q/fYolJMkwgSKozvTUfCoWgPq6v2boyVMmRq+kjWnIG9bHiiKfUY8NfIj8BTFi4fFh/ lq2obL9jLlDr+XS19fkT7LXRsbL90mabzNVVYk3oH3TC3c7VLUK4LgpOYJNCxzgGBfRj gdrzFrl5B7g3NTDmw728TOGntWUH8h9yYjh5YfTTCfp/RAD4ft3rW1Jufv4R5aoZkqJy jHdQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20230601; t=1719319913; x=1719924713; h=to:subject:message-id:date:from:mime-version:x-gm-message-state :from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=rOfsk8mi6aSletCp64JOiu8XBhwssGNnz4n+NP8Yyus=; b=EnivSQfrylvSONHx6facmp26Zghai5/ygFqoXc9XCligEmF7zzY53npSTl8WeCzaAH 4g0f7P15BG69UlAvc/Yu2eX5ZtR7XkAyycQj6aVMVe4kJZTRveoi2RcqOU1mUs0tY5g5 gSgV6/xXkeSGCA7dnKhXbJE9PujBg3wD5XkUkHtxccUTiLX916sIgMx/LccFsNh3mvWz 1We5QLTAX6aK+z2Oarts3HLLWVttkl3VHSsc6K6CXj7rWryGjTIHUeettPn5Ju1pohGX ZDVTV0ZpMoY/mBL0x2S7+2LU/6JtVtdO5siF78fWi7OgCmB15MtrbUCGhoAEjKFTIL5O 51Dg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0YwzU/T+NKFtocOJfnNcnbrJOguqVwPT2OQIn3iGZSupmzVSY6i9 0QPq02+BJPrBVs2YpcnqnoUb/3me2NLuSidLWsmhFUkG6AR1i2lguOQUsETjcJMVsMvhPX7vSVs XsjzxVmnNF7VYjygZoeWzeJ59Ega6va9S38KspaanSIMJG8AgxCQ= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IFfeUjVrnP0RNJrIiWBuA3R9iQdktJodHctztdcFYUDNkkyekVlxveyIaqczCiJKAH7H6n1pUgzOk5c7GDqyz8= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6102:162b:b0:48f:716c:1e9b with SMTP id ada2fe7eead31-48f716c1fa4mr1597778137.10.1719319913498; Tue, 25 Jun 2024 05:51:53 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Douglas McIlroy Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 08:51:39 -0400 Message-ID: To: TUHS main list Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000b324c1061bb65cf8" Message-ID-Hash: W72L4W7FBTTRA7V5QN42YJ2CIFUQNIXP X-Message-ID-Hash: W72L4W7FBTTRA7V5QN42YJ2CIFUQNIXP X-MailFrom: douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header 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: --000000000000b324c1061bb65cf8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > 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 --000000000000b324c1061bb65cf8 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> The lack of a monospaced font is, I = suspect, due either to
> physical limitations of t= he C/A/T phototypesetter[1] or fiscal
> limitation= s--no budget in that department to buy photographic
&= gt; plates for Courier.=C2=A0

Sinc= e the C/A/T held only four fonts, there was no room for
Courier. = But when we moved beyond that typesetter, inertia
kept the ol= d ways . Finally, in v9, I introduced the fixed-width
"liter= al font", L, in -man and said goodbye to boldface in
syn= opses. By then, though, Research Unix=C2=A0 was merely a
local br= anch of the Unix evolutionary tree, so the literal-font
gene neve= r spread.

Doug
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