30 Nov
2020
30 Nov
'20
10:38 p.m.
On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 9:27 AM Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 10:54 AM Clem Cole
<clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
There are a few MD to troff converters, though I don't know how many will
convert to -ms format that was likely used historically. And given that ms
has a little more semantic info than MD does, there may be some manual
steps afterwards. Even a perfect converter would likely have manual steps
since it was also the custom back in the day to tweak this or that in the
output...
Warner
Too bad, they did not use the UNIX tool kit like
troff and eqn which are
described in the paper itself, to restore it. If you were going to the
trouble to make the 'md' file - it would have been just as easy to create
troff source.
In fairness, the Markdown renders directly from the github web UI, but I
agree that using troff/eqn would have been nice. Surely it wouldn't be that
hard to massage the markdown into troff markdown.