15 Sep
2019
15 Sep
'19
11:23 p.m.
ROFF is the simplest of the runoff programs but is utterly frozen.
I started with the -ms macro package so I had fondness for it, but switched to -mm over
time. I had done some work (after not being able to pry a version Dennis Mumaugh had
written out of the agency) on putting classification marking and formatting in it. I
had restyled it to make the output look like the standard IBM formatting when we were
doing UNIX work under contract for IBM.
At Hopkins, we had a small furor when Mike (Michael John) Muuss wrote his own macro
package and installed it as tmac.jm (invoked by the -mjm option). This led to lots of
jokes about renaming programs and options after various users.