11 Sep
2024
11 Sep
'24
11:40 p.m.
Long before there was Markdown, there was a similar Unix tool. I remember
reading about it before the Internet was popular, probably mid-to-late
1980s. I may have read about it in “Communications of the ACM”.
It was designed to let secretaries compose memos, without learning the dot
commands of troff or nroff. If you indented a space or two, it started a
new paragraph. If you indented several spaces, it centered the line; very
similar to Markdown in concept. It generated a file that could be fed into
troff.
I was thinking it might have been part of the System V Documentors
Workbench, but I read through the doc for it and could not find anything
like that.
Does anyone remember this?
Thanks!