28 Aug
2017
28 Aug
'17
6:10 a.m.
On 2017-08-27 11:04 PM, Doug McIlroy wrote:
<aside> When people wonder why digital archiving and preservation is so
incredibly hard -- situations like this perfectly illustrate why. </aside>
More on topic though: I'm a typographer with an interest in markup
languages, since I used them commercially in the 1980s (mostly TeX, but
with a large personal macro library, hence invoking the problem above,
if the source documents had even been archived, which they were not --
an even more basic problem).
I'm interested in reading John Labovitz' history, for sure.
--Toby
As a *roff
fan, I'd love, love, love to see the original roff sources.
Especially anything that uses pic/eqn/chem/etc.
I have the source for CSTR 155, a trilogy on raster ellipses. It uses
interesting preprocessors that are, alas, mostly lost: ideal, prefer, eqn.
(If anybody has ideal, I'd love to get it. Even its author, Chris Van Wyk,
doesn't have it.)
Doug