28 Aug
2017
28 Aug
'17
3:04 a.m.
As a *roff fan, I'd love, love, love to see the
original roff sources.
Especially anything that uses pic/eqn/chem/etc.
I have the source for CSTR 155, a trilogy on raster ellipses. It uses
interesting preprocessors that are, alas, mostly lost: ideal, prefer, eqn.
(If anybody has ideal, I'd love to get it. Even its author, Chris Van Wyk,
doesn't have it.)
Doug
28 Aug
28 Aug
4 a.m.
New subject: CSTR files
interesting preprocessors that are, alas, mostly lost:
ideal, prefer, eqn.
(If anybody has ideal, I'd love to get it. Even its author, Chris Van Wyk,
doesn't have it.)
Is the source for ideal, command, manual and the document which
appears in the Tenth Edition Manual, all of which are in the
source that was recently released, not what you are after?
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Doug McIlroy <doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> > As a *roff fan, I'd love, love, love to see the original roff sources.
> > Especially anything that uses pic/eqn/chem/etc.
>
> I have the source for CSTR 155, a trilogy on raster ellipses. It uses
interesting preprocessors that are, alas, mostly lost:
ideal, prefer, eqn.
(If anybody has ideal, I'd love to get it. Even its author, Chris Van Wyk,
doesn't have it.)
>
> Doug
>
4:10 a.m.
New subject: CSTR files
On 2017-08-27 11:04 PM, Doug McIlroy wrote:
<aside> When people wonder why digital archiving and preservation is so
incredibly hard -- situations like this perfectly illustrate why. </aside>
More on topic though: I'm a typographer with an interest in markup
languages, since I used them commercially in the 1980s (mostly TeX, but
with a large personal macro library, hence invoking the problem above,
if the source documents had even been archived, which they were not --
an even more basic problem).
I'm interested in reading John Labovitz' history, for sure.
--Toby
As a *roff
fan, I'd love, love, love to see the original roff sources.
Especially anything that uses pic/eqn/chem/etc.
I have the source for CSTR 155, a trilogy on raster ellipses. It uses
interesting preprocessors that are, alas, mostly lost: ideal, prefer, eqn.
(If anybody has ideal, I'd love to get it. Even its author, Chris Van Wyk,
doesn't have it.)
Doug
4:16 a.m.
New subject: CSTR files
Looks like 'prefer' is in there too. :-)
Noel Hunt <noel.hunt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
interesting
preprocessors that are, alas, mostly lost: ideal, prefer, eqn.
(If anybody has ideal, I'd love to get it. Even its author, Chris Van Wyk,
doesn't have it.)
Is the source for ideal, command, manual and the document which
appears in the Tenth Edition Manual, all of which are in the
source that was recently released, not what you are after?
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Doug McIlroy <doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> > As a *roff fan, I'd love, love, love to see the original roff sources.
> > Especially anything that uses pic/eqn/chem/etc.
>
> I have the source for CSTR 155, a trilogy on raster ellipses. It uses
interesting preprocessors that are, alas, mostly
lost: ideal, prefer, eqn.
(If anybody has ideal, I'd love to get it. Even its author, Chris Van Wyk,
doesn't have it.)
>
> Doug
> 
12:47 p.m.
New subject: CSTR files
On Aug 28, 2017, at 12:10 AM, Toby Thain <toby(a)telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
More on topic though: I'm a typographer with an
interest in markup
languages, since I used them commercially in the 1980s (mostly TeX, but
with a large personal macro library, hence invoking the problem above,
if the source documents had even been archived, which they were not --
an even more basic problem).
I'm interested in reading John Labovitz' history, for sure.
Glad to hear it.
I’ve put in a request to the editor of _Printing History,_ asking permission to obtain my
article as a PDF, or at worst, something I can format and make available to the list. I’ll
let folks know once this happens.
—John
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