[TUHS] Fifth Edition Manual Restoration

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Fri Mar 10 07:04:31 AEST 2023


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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