15 May
2018
15 May
'18
3:35 a.m.
On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 5:32 PM, Jaap Akkerhuis <jaapna(a)xs4all.nl> wrote:
Thinking about this typesetter C may have been later with ditroff.
No.
What I remember, there was first roff written in assembler. It was
then rewrittn into C (but now with real macro capabilities. roff
has a lt build in), Typesetter C appeared in Edition 6.1 (of 6.2)
since the n/troff code demanded a lot from the C-compiler. To make
it possible to run it on a pdp11 there was the hack turning data
into test (for the hyphenation tables). Ditroff was done by bwk
to be devie independent.
Regards,
jaap
Thanks -- this make sense and it the piece that I could not remember.
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