12 Sep
2024
12 Sep
'24
12:11 a.m.
There was "more" on the Mac. Not sure if that is what you are talking about.
I loved it, made a clone for making slide decks.
On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 05:40:22PM -0600, Lynn Grant wrote:
Long before there was Markdown, there was a similar
Unix tool. I remember
reading about it before the Internet was popular, probably mid-to-late
1980s. I may have read about it in ???Communications of the ACM???.
It was designed to let secretaries compose memos, without learning the dot
commands of troff or nroff. If you indented a space or two, it started a
new paragraph. If you indented several spaces, it centered the line; very
similar to Markdown in concept. It generated a file that could be fed into
troff.
I was thinking it might have been part of the System V Documentors
Workbench, but I read through the doc for it and could not find anything
like that.
Does anyone remember this?
Thanks!
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