From: Milo Velimirovic <milov@cs.uwlax.edu>
To: Angelo Papenhoff <aap@papnet.eu>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Reconstructed and newly set UNIX Manual
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 08:07:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D980BC1E-288D-4679-AB86-8028FA5B1E2E@cs.uwlax.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181027122834.GA97675@indra.papnet.eu>
> On Oct 27, 2018, at 7:28 AM, Angelo Papenhoff <aap@papnet.eu> wrote:
>
> On 27/10/18, Doug McIlroy wrote:
>>> Now it could be that v7 troff is perfectly capable of generating the
>>> manual just like older troff would have.
>>
>> On taking over editorship for v7, I added some macros to the -man
>> package. I don't specifically recall making any incompatible
>> changes. If there were any, they'd most likely show up in
>> the title and synopsis and should be fixable by a minor tweak
>> to -man. I'm quite confident that there would be no problems
>> with troff proper.
>
> I didn't mean the macros. They are not problematic at all.
> It's the idea how much a point is compared to an inch that has
> changed over time i think.
>
> aap
From my experience in the world of prepress 723pts == 10in.
Then Adobe unleashed PostScript on us and redefined the point
so that 72pt == 1in.
I’m unaware of any other definitions of a point.
-Milo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-27 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-27 11:59 Doug McIlroy
2018-10-27 12:28 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2018-10-27 13:07 ` Milo Velimirovic [this message]
2018-10-27 13:56 ` Toby Thain
2018-10-27 15:19 ` Ralph Corderoy
2018-10-27 15:53 ` Clem Cole
2018-10-27 16:25 ` Larry McVoy
2018-10-27 19:45 ` Lars Brinkhoff
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2018-10-27 14:18 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-10-26 19:46 Angelo Papenhoff
2018-10-26 19:57 ` Jim Capp
2018-10-26 20:41 ` Clem Cole
2018-10-26 21:05 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2018-10-26 21:58 ` Bakul Shah
2018-10-26 20:59 ` Warren Toomey
2018-10-27 17:15 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2018-10-27 17:41 ` Angelo Papenhoff
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[not found] ` <20181026221153.GA19920@indra.papnet.eu>
2018-10-26 22:29 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2018-10-26 23:06 ` Warner Losh
2018-10-26 23:46 ` Larry McVoy
2018-10-28 22:57 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2018-10-29 0:15 ` Clem cole
2018-11-01 17:21 ` Angelo Papenhoff
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