On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 10:54 AM Clem Cole <
clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
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.
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...