Re: Q: nroff character sizes

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From: Lawrence Plona
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 17:03

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Philip K. Ronzone (pkr@sgi.com)
> Actually, troff was written first. Nroff was a hack of troff that came
> after.

   According to The UNIX Programming Environment by Kernighan and
   Pike, nroff came first and troff was written as an extended
   version.  Apparently, nroff has been frozen since. The only change
   that comes to mind is the move from binary to text driving tables.

   Again, I'd like to say that I think that nroff should have been
   (I realize that its pointless now) updated with the increasing
   abilites of cheap printers. One look at an nroff driving table
   shows that the basis is already there.

   - Larry Plona
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Subject: Re: Q: nroff character sizes
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