8 Mar
2023
8 Mar
'23
5:30 p.m.
Something I'd like is to recreate the original troff output exactly. I
used troff from plan 9 (so same lineage as original troff) but something
causes the output to not look exactly like the original. I don't
remember what it is exactly but you can easily check by comparing my
pdfs with the scan. Line lengths, page length, something like that.
I don't know if this is just a troff setting or if troff had changed
enough to cause this difference. Unfortunately the original troff is
lost so no way to compare. v7 (or PWB?) is the earliest version of troff
that's still around. And even then one would need CAT emulation, which I
haven't bothered with yet.
Cheers,
Angelo
On 08/03/23, segaloco wrote:
Ouch....well I'm glad I shared then, I had no
idea someone had already done this....well good to know, I guess I can move on to the CB
and MERT manuals then.
- Matt G.
------- Original Message -------
On Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 at 2:02 AM, Angelo Papenhoff <aap(a)papnet.eu> wrote:
> I've done this a couple of years ago:
> http://squoze.net/UNIX
>
> Cheers,
> Angelo
>
> On 08/03/23, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
>
> > So I decided to keep the momentum and have just finished the first pass of a
Fifth Edition manual restoration based on the same process I used for 3B20 4.1:
> >
> > https://gitlab.com/segaloco/v5man
> >
> > There were a few pages missing from the extant PDF scan, at least as far as
pages that were in both V4 and V6 sources, so those are handled by seeing how V5 source of
the few programs compares to V6. I'll note which pages required this in a second
pass.
> >
> > I've set my sights on V1 and V2 next, using V3's extant roff sources
as a starting point, so more to come.
> >
> > - Matt G.