13 Jan
2022
13 Jan
'22
9:08 p.m.
On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 9:57 AM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
below.... [excellent job -- you wrote what I had
planned -- few
tweeks/color added below].
On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:31 PM Win Treese <treese(a)acm.org> wrote:
Many of us who wrote articles for the Bell System Technical Journal would
disagree. The BSTJ publishers could transform something that made sense
when viewed as troff output into unintelligible gibberish. You cannot split
a UNIX command line into multiple lines just because it "looks better".
Sometimes format really matters.
Scribe was in the mix after troff and TeX.
Fun fact, I believe that bwk was Brian's thesis committee
Brian Reid’s observation was that writers should
be writing, and
publishing professionals should design how documents look.
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