[TUHS] CSTR files
John Labovitz
johnl at johnlabovitz.com
Sat Aug 26 07:33:42 AEST 2017
On Aug 25, 2017, at 4:59 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>> From: John Labovitz
>
>> I found the earliest succession of roff predecessors went something like this:
>> TJ-2 -> RUNOFF (capitals) -> runoff (lowercase) -> rf -> roff
>
> Did you manage to find out from Jerry if he knew of/anything about TJ2 when he did
> RUNOFF?
I did not. I was on a pretty tight deadline when I was writing the article, and didn’t have time to explore. I would love to do so some day, though. I’m particularly interested in the evolution of markup systems, and as far as I can tell, not much has been recorded for posterity.
—John
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