[TUHS] Troff to ps

Jaap Akkerhuis jaapna at xs4all.nl
Mon Jul 27 19:19:36 AEST 2020


>> When was dpost born?
>> 
>> N.
> 
> Eighth Edition, as part of ditroff.  It wouldn't help on 2.11BSD anyway,
> as dpost reads the ascii intermediate form from ditroff, not the C/A/T
> typesetter codes from original troff.

I don't know when it was born.  It came from the Documentors Work
Bench (DWB).  The DWB used various to create the appropriate font
tables using the target postscript interpreter the fonts were used.
As far as I know, dpost and these tools were created by Rich Drechsler.

	jaap



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