[TUHS] Proliferation of book print styles

[Will Senn]

Today, as I was digging more into nroff/troff and such, and bemoaning 
the lack of brevity of modern text. I got to thinking about the old days 
and what might have gone wrong with book production that got us where we 
are today.

First, I wanna ask, tongue in cheek, sort of... As the inventors and 
early pioneers in the area of moving from typesetters to print on 
demand... do you feel a bit like the Manhattan project - did you maybe 
put too much power into the hands of folks who probably shouldn't have 
that power?

But seriously, I know the period of time where we went from hot metal 
typesetting to the digital era was an eyeblink in history but do y'all 
recall how it went down? Were you surprised when folks settled on word 
processors in favor of markup? Do you think we've progressed in the area 
of ease of creating documentation and printing it making it viewable and 
accurate since 1980?

I didn't specifically mention unix, but unix history is forever bound to 
the evolution of documents and printing, so I figure it's fair game for 
TUHS and isn't yet COFF :).

Later,

Will
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