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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

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-09 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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