27 Feb
2017
27 Feb
'17
1:46 a.m.
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Ron Natalie <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
Amusingly someone sent me a document not that far back
with a table in it.
I said "Did you use PIC and TBL with this?" He admitted he did. It
had
the little tell tail stray overshoots on the vertical lines. I would have
thought someone would have fixed that in the interim.
When I was getting deployed to Afghanistan, we were given a little
laminated card with a "cheat sheet" of important bits of radio protocol on
it: how to call for a casualty evacuation, unexploded ordinance (I had to
use that one once, btw...), a thing called a MIST report that detailed
injuries, etc.
Anyway, something about the fonts and I *knew* it had been written using
troff. Of course, we didn't have the source, just the card...so I sat down
and recreated it. I printed a whole bunch out, laminated them and gave them
to my Marines to hang onto. I probably still have the PIC file laying
around my directory somewhere.
- Dan C.