6 Jan
2024
6 Jan
'24
10:06 a.m.
On Fri, Jan 05, 2024 at 09:22:36PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Where did you discover the identity and date of the
1998 retypeset of
the V7 Volume 2 manual? I have wondered about this for years. In part
to complain, because while it is a _fairly_ faithful reproduction of the
original, it is not perfect, and this has led to some arguments on the
groff mailing list with people who impute excessive authority to it.
(I guess they couldn't see the little hollow gray boxes where the
PostScript renderer had no defined character, if we're talking about the
same document.)
Brian Walden's notes on creating them:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080217213120/http://plan9.bell-labs.com/7thEdM…
http://web.cuzuco.com/~cuzuco/v7/
CreationDate in the pdfs is 1998