[TUHS] Re: Original print of V7 manual?

Hi Matt, Thank you for taking the time to respond to my odd inquiry! The main thing I am looking for is either confirmation or refutation of my hypothesis that those Vol2 docs that aren't Berkeley-new have remained entirely unchanged (and *not* retroffed) between V7 and 4.2BSD Usenix print. Perhaps flip through a few randomly selected docs and see if all page breaks line up exactly or not - when UCB/Usenix retroffed these docs for 4.3BSD, they used a newer typesetter (APS-5) driven by a slightly newer troff (early ditroff), and the font metrics are different enough to displace line breaks and page breaks throughout the corpus of the text. Also if you have time, here are some specific spots in V7 Vol2 which I would appreciate getting looked at: * Vol 2a doc 8, "Typing Documents on the UNIX System", M. E. Lesk: the last page of this paper exhibits a "Figure 1" drawing that appears to have been done literally by hand, with someone taking a pen (or pencil or whatever other handwriting implement) to the output of the typesetter (was it photographic paper that had to be developed first?) and drawing the figure, before the resulting master was then used for mass reproduction. In Erica's scan of 4.2BSD UNIX User's Manual Supplementary docs book, this hand drawing appears on page 346. Does it look exactly the same in V7 original? * Vol 2a doc 12, "NROFF/TROFF User's Manual", J. F. Ossanna - please look at the following details: - in Table I (Font Style Examples), is the square character hollow in all 3 fonts (like in 4.2BSD print), or is it filled in bold or in any other font? - the two pointing hand characters in Special Mathematical Font, do they look exactly the same between V7 and 4.2BSD? - if you spot any other diffs, please let me know! * Vol 2a doc 13, "A TROFF Tutorial", B. W. Kernighan: is there a final page titled "Appendix A: Phototypesetter Character Set", or is it missing? This page comes from ttcharset troff source file, it is included in Brian S. Walden's 1998 PDF reprint, but it is missing in both 4.2BSD and 4.3BSD prints from Usenix. - If this Appendix A page is included, how does \(sq look? Is it hollow in the main table but filled in bold, or is hollow in both places? (Or something else?) * Vol 2a doc 16, "Make - A Program for Maintaining Computer Programs", S. I. Feldman: first of all, do page breaks line up perfectly between V7 and 4.2BSD prints? If they do, please look at the top of page labeled "- 6 -": there is a drawing that was apparently done by hand, similarly to the one in the -ms document, although this one is a bit simpler. Does it look like the drawing in 4.2BSD version is exactly the same as in V7? * Vol 2b doc 31, "UNIX Implementation", K. Thompson: does it look exactly the same between V7 and 4.2BSD? Do all page breaks line up? There is Fig 1 on page 2 and Fig 2 on page 8 - do they look the same between the two prints? Once again, it is a mystery to me how these two figures were produced originally: pic didn't exist yet, and the troff source only leaves blank space for each figure. But they don't look hand-drawn either - so how were they made... Finally, in Volume 1 - how does eqnchar(7) page look in the original V7 version? The version in 4.2BSD print was clearly retroffed anew, as the date in the footer is 1983 - so I wonder how the original V7 version looked. Is the "blot" character a black filled square, or is it something else? Are "square" and "circle" just above it both hollow? TIA for all this scrutiny, Your resident troff nut Mychaela