18 Jul
2024
18 Jul
'24
3:01 a.m.
That's pretty cool and it sure looks a lot like nroff.
On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 08:51:04PM +0000, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
Just sharing a copy of the Roff Manual that I had
forgotten I scanned a little while back:
https://archive.org/details/roff_manual
This appears to be the UNIX complement to the S/360 version of the paper backed up by
Doug here: https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/roff71/roff71.pdf
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Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat
From the best I could tell, this predates both
1973's V3 and the 1971 S/360 version of the paper, putting it somewhere prior to
1971. For instance, it is missing the .ar, .hx, .ig, .ix, .ni, .nx, .ro, .ta, and .tc
requests found in V3. The .ar and .ro, and .ta requests pop up in the S/360 paper, the
rest are in the V3 manpage (prior manpages don't list the request summary).
If anyone has some authoritative date information I can update the archive description
accordingly.
Finally, this very well could be missing the last page, the Page offset, Merge patterns,
and Envoi sections of Doug's paper are not reflected here, although at the very
least, the .mg request is not in this paper so the Merge patterns section probably
wasn't there anyway.
- Matt G.