10 Mar
2022
10 Mar
'22
6:21 p.m.
This is accurate. I was briefly involved with sqtroff, because it was brought to York U
by one of the founders (david slocombe) to publish York's newsletter.
see this for coach house press history. possibly the first (outside bell) unix-based
publisher.
https://publishing.sfu.ca/2015/12/coach-house-press-early-digital-period/
... oz
On Mon, Mar 7, 2022, at 11:55 AM, Kevin Bowling wrote:
Interesting. That sounds like a different commercial
strain, "SoftQuad
was started in order to improve automated typesetting at Toronto's
Coach House Press, and for many years developed an enhanced commercial
version of the text formatting program troff, developed under license
from AT&T, called sqtroff. It was sold with a suite of associated
programs, corresponding to AT&T's Documenter's Workbench, under the
name SoftQuad Publishing Software (SQPS)."
On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 6:28 AM Jaap Akkerhuis <jaapna(a)xs4all.nl> wrote:
ozan s. yigit
http://nextbit.blogspot.com
*to live fully is to wage constant battle against the mundane.* -- guy tal
I see documentation of 1.0 (i.e
https://archive.org/details/sysv-dwb/page/n5/mode/2up)
I see a copy of 2.0 for 3B2 (i.e.
https://archives.loomcom.com/3b2/software/Documenters_Workbench/)
From there things get a little less clear, it seems like we jump to
3.2 with SysVR3.2?
The jump might be due to the effect that for quite a while outside
AT&T it was marketed by SoftQuad (Toronto). (See also
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftQuad_Software>).
jaap