> On 6 Oct 2024, at 00:22, G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Unix nroff got frozen
> in amber in 1978 with respect to terminal support, and continues to live
> in a world where the termcap and terminfo libraries were never written.

Nroff did actually read in the output description from, if I remember
correctly, /usr/lib/termtab/xxx with the argument -Txxx.  these where
stripped object files. I have made them for Diable daisy-wheel printers.  Some
could create bold characters by overprinting and we once had one with two
print heads, the second head had an italics daisy-wheel mounted.

	jaap