From: "ozan yigit" <oz@silentrunning.ca>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Documenter's Workbench versions
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:21:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a51b0d27-c2de-4e27-916e-47f728056db7@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK7dMtD6P+=5XHmcyn5KmCn3ys18CjafUsyBD0PW_VWrzsXzSw@mail.gmail.com>
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This is accurate. I was briefly involved with sqtroff, because it was brought to York U
by one of the founders (david slocombe) to publish York's newsletter.
see this for coach house press history. possibly the first (outside bell) unix-based publisher.
https://publishing.sfu.ca/2015/12/coach-house-press-early-digital-period/
... oz
On Mon, Mar 7, 2022, at 11:55 AM, Kevin Bowling wrote:
> Interesting. That sounds like a different commercial strain, "SoftQuad
> was started in order to improve automated typesetting at Toronto's
> Coach House Press, and for many years developed an enhanced commercial
> version of the text formatting program troff, developed under license
> from AT&T, called sqtroff. It was sold with a suite of associated
> programs, corresponding to AT&T's Documenter's Workbench, under the
> name SoftQuad Publishing Software (SQPS)."
>
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 6:28 AM Jaap Akkerhuis <jaapna@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > I see documentation of 1.0 (i.e
> > > https://archive.org/details/sysv-dwb/page/n5/mode/2up)
> > > I see a copy of 2.0 for 3B2 (i.e.
> > > https://archives.loomcom.com/3b2/software/Documenters_Workbench/)
> > >
> > > From there things get a little less clear, it seems like we jump to
> > > 3.2 with SysVR3.2?
> >
> > The jump might be due to the effect that for quite a while outside
> > AT&T it was marketed by SoftQuad (Toronto). (See also
> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftQuad_Software>).
> >
> > jaap
> >
>
ozan s. yigit
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-10 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-07 1:02 Kevin Bowling
2022-03-07 2:42 ` Larry McVoy
2022-03-07 13:28 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2022-03-07 16:55 ` Kevin Bowling
2022-03-10 17:21 ` ozan yigit [this message]
2022-03-07 20:57 ` Kevin Bowling
2022-03-09 22:30 ` Andrew Diller
2022-03-10 0:44 ` Kevin Bowling
2022-03-10 2:17 ` Andrew Diller
2022-03-10 1:10 ` Dan Plassche
2022-03-14 0:17 ` Dan Plassche
2022-03-13 5:24 ` Warren Toomey
2022-03-09 2:06 Douglas McIlroy
2022-03-09 9:41 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
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