15 Apr
2004
15 Apr
'04
3:43 a.m.
On 2004-Apr-14 12:51:15 -0400, Kurt Wall <kwall(a)kurtwerks.com> wrote:
In a 0.7K blaze of typing glory, Aharon Robbins wrote:
Actually, I'm surprised that someone (presumably John Lions) re-wrote
the nroff into LaTeX - it would seem easier to have just used troff
for the book.
In order to get that 'original' feel, you'll need to find an
appropriate DECwriter (LA120?). Remember to hand-write the page
numbers and draw in the lines (and maybe boxes) in chapter 23 by hand.
Whilst you could re-create the appropriate 7x9 (I think) font for a
modern printer - though that will be missing the feel of impact
dot-matrix output: random variations in density and missing dots.
Personally, I think that is over-doing it. Text is _far_ easier to
read when it's properly typeset using a good looking font (that
includes descenders) at high resolution (>600dpi). I believe the
visual appearance of the original notes was limited by the technology
available to John Lions in 1977, rather than a deliberate decision to
produce low quality output.
Peter
Now, were anyone so truly perverse, they might
take the latex and
convert it into nroff/troff. :-)
Thus returning to the original form in which it was prepared. There's
an appealing circularity and feeling of having come full circle to
that...