[TUHS] Markdown Unix precursor

[Larry McVoy]

There was "more" on the Mac.  Not sure if that is what you are talking about.
I loved it, made a clone for making slide decks.

On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 05:40:22PM -0600, Lynn Grant wrote:
> Long before there was Markdown, there was a similar Unix tool. I remember
> reading about it before the Internet was popular, probably mid-to-late
> 1980s. I may have read about it in ???Communications of the ACM???.
> 
> It was designed to let secretaries compose memos, without learning the dot
> commands of troff or nroff. If you indented a space or two, it started a
> new paragraph. If you indented several spaces, it centered the line; very
> similar to Markdown in concept. It generated a file that could be fed into
> troff.
> 
> I was thinking it might have been part of the System V Documentors
> Workbench, but I read through the doc for it and could not find anything
> like that.
> 
> Does anyone remember this?
> 
> Thanks!

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