27 Aug
2017
27 Aug
'17
9:48 p.m.
Hi,
i do have a tool for plan9 which attempts to convert html to troff source. this is not the
standard plan9 tool but something of my own creation.
at one time some (maybe all) the cstr papers where available as html. if anyone can find
copies in html i could try and reverse them.
fyi i even had a go at rfc2ms which works fairly well for some rfcs, it tries to generate
a more troff-like doc than 66 lines per page, block caps for emphasis style used in rfcs.
it works well for some docs but like many projects, is unfinished.
troff addicts are welcome to the code for both, but beware, the plan9ports toolkit will be
needed for [lu]nix.
-Steve
On 27 Aug 2017, at 16:11, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
The original sources for troff are around, look at the Heirloom Unix
project.
I assume that you meant the sources for the CSTRs themselves. BWK
donated the sources for the troff tutorial and troff manual and I sent
them to Warren some time ago. The original Bell Labs guys would have
to indicate if they have sources for any of the others.
Undoubtedly some of them could be reconstituted via OCR, but that's
a serious project. (Worth doing, IMHO, but still a serious project; I
don't have the cycles for anything like that...)
Arnold
Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
> As a *roff fan, I'd love, love, love to see the original roff sources.
> Especially anything that uses pic/eqn/chem/etc.
>
> Any chance of that?
>
>> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 02:01:39PM +0300, Aharon Robbins wrote:
>> Hi All.
>>
>> I have made a tarball of all the Bell Labs CSTRs that I could
>> file: http://www.skeeve.com/cstr.tar.gz.
>>
>> It's just under ten megs. Warren, can we get this into the archives?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Arnold
>
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