From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Fifth Edition Manual Restoration
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 08:04:31 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2303100800280.4881@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKzdPgxHrrL_KuwWiN0cNJJdBn3bXMEcELX7Z6uDz093ebbTfA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 10 Mar 2023, Rob Pike wrote:
> I had an idea. I asked Tom Duff, Mike Tilson, Bill Reeves to help me put
> together tools and font digitizations to "print" nroff output to the
> Versatec plotter one weekend in early 1978. [...]
We did something like that for our LV-11; I vaguely remember italics being
implemented by "sloping" the text, and bold by offsetting by a dot.
Mind you, that Versatec spent most of its time plotting biorhythm charts
for the operators and their GFs; well, this was the 70s, man...
-- Dave
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2023-03-08 7:26 [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-03-08 10:02 ` [TUHS] " Angelo Papenhoff
2023-03-08 16:02 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-03-08 16:30 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2023-03-08 20:55 ` josh
2023-03-08 22:21 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-03-08 23:09 ` David Arnold
2023-03-09 6:59 ` arnold
2023-03-09 14:24 ` Clem Cole
2023-03-09 20:48 ` Rob Pike
2023-03-09 21:04 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2023-03-09 22:32 ` Rich Salz
2023-03-09 23:51 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2023-03-10 1:58 ` Rob Pike
2023-03-10 6:33 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-03-10 7:50 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-03-10 13:11 ` Clem Cole
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