26 Jan
2020
26 Jan
'20
1:13 a.m.
On Sun, 26 Jan 2020, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
I'm inlining my findings in rendered and source
form below, but there's
one feature I haven't been able to sort out--where did .SB (small bold)
come from? The oldest groff release I can find online is 1.02 (June
1991), and .SB is already there, but I can't find it anywhere else. Is
it a GNUism? Did it perhaps appear in a proprietary Unix first?
I see .SB used in the
C Manual - Language
Edited by R.P.A. Collinson
Document No: DOC/UNIX.K3.10/1
and UKC IO Library docs also from Collinson at Univ. of Kent.
as found in the usenix-78-uk1 tape.
Maybe that is uk1.tar at
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Spencer_Tapes/
I also see a SB Stymie Bold font in v7 troff.