From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 11723 invoked from network); 10 Mar 2023 06:33:28 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (2600:3c01:e000:146::1) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 10 Mar 2023 06:33:28 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32D46413D9; Fri, 10 Mar 2023 16:33:23 +1000 (AEST) Received: from lechuck.jsg.id.au (jsg.id.au [193.114.144.202]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E62CC413CD for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2023 16:33:14 +1000 (AEST) Received: from largo.jsg.id.au (largo.jsg.id.au [192.168.1.43]) by lechuck.jsg.id.au (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPS id aba28e92 (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:33:12 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from localhost (largo.jsg.id.au [local]) by largo.jsg.id.au (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id 2ba32142; Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:33:12 +1100 (AEDT) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:33:12 +1100 From: Jonathan Gray To: "Jeremy C. Reed" Message-ID: References: <944F23E0-DBB0-45E3-AE08-3CF17AE98426@pobox.com> <407644d5-1436-3c4f-cdfc-87635fcdc9df@reedmedia.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <407644d5-1436-3c4f-cdfc-87635fcdc9df@reedmedia.net> Message-ID-Hash: H45VXQFA7QEQAC44UNG3WWGRTWCXIJV4 X-Message-ID-Hash: H45VXQFA7QEQAC44UNG3WWGRTWCXIJV4 X-MailFrom: jsg@jsg.id.au 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 CC: tuhs@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Fifth Edition Manual Restoration List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 11:51:05PM +0000, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Fri, 10 Mar 2023, Rob Pike wrote: > > > Later that year we, mostly Bill, coupled it to troff, along with some > > digitized fonts, and it went out on the Toronto tapes, with our names on it. > > For many years I saw evidence in scientific papers of people using Bill's > > digitization of the Bodoni fonts. > > Do you recall the name of this software or project? I tried various > greps in a few of the Usenix archives but cannot tell what it is. > Thanks "This page appears twice in this issue. The first copy is the usual phototypesetter output. The second copy is the product of the Toronto typesetter simulator for the Versatec. The spacing between characters in the Versatec simulation does not appear correct due to the fact that the phototypesetter is mounted with the Sovran font and therefore the Toronto software is taking those font widths into account in calculating its spacing even though it is printing using Roman fonts." https://archive.org/details/login_november-1977/mode/2up "Bill Reeves, who also wrote vcat, a Versatec typesetter-simulator which runs as an output filter to troff. Vcat (which was used to generate this document) is available free as part of the University of Toronto distribution #3." https://archive.org/details/login_january-1980/page/n9/mode/2up I can't find the original Toronto distribution. Some documentation (no source) for a modified version with credits in: tuhs/Applications/Spencer_Tapes/del.tar.gz delaware/usgs.v7 "USGS Menlo Park Unix" U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California delaware/usgs.v7/man/chap1/trot.1 trot - troff output rotating program AUTHOR Bill Reeves, University of Toronto Martin Pensak, University of California, San Francisco delaware/usgs.v7/man/chap1/vcat.1 vcat - interpreter of troff output for Versatec AUTHORS Bill Reeves, University of Toronto Martin Pensak & Thomas Ferrin, University of California, San Francisco William Joy, University of California, Berkeley delaware/usgs.v7/man/chap5/tfonts.5 tfonts - troff versatec font usage AUTHOR Bill Reeves at University of Toronto. CSRG SCCS admin/admin/contrib/contrib has: Versatec printer/plotter support University of Toronto