26 Jun
2024
26 Jun
'24
1:27 a.m.
Hi Mychaela,
At 2024-06-25T11:15:32-0800, Mychaela Falconia wrote:
G. Branden Robinson
<g.branden.robinson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I definitely am not certain, and I am mindful of the possibility that
that the C Language Reference part of the book was typeset at a
different stage of production than the rest of the volume.
C was still in relative ferment at that time, as we can tell from
<https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/cchanges.pdf>, a document that
was included in some printings of Volume 2 of the Seventh Edition Unix
manual.
Thanks for pointing out this alternative explanation.
Regards,
Branden
So maybe they had access to a CAT-8 after all,
and used a whopping 5
different font plates. Or they used a CAT-4 and had to compose many
pages in two passes. That would have been mightily tedious.
Are you certain that the bold in that book is real B font and not .bd
construct? I am not sure about the full K&R book, but the C Reference
Manual doc in vol 2 seems to have been troff'ed with .bd for bold
(while keepting R, I, S and adding CW), ditto for the UNIX Programming
doc in the same volume that similarly uses CW for program listings.