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In article <1991Jun13.200408.28043@cbnewsl.att.com> npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson) writes:

Thanks for the clarification...

>The date on the first nroff memo is 1973. It was intended
>to take advantage of the Model 37 teletype, which had
>lower-case letters (a breakthrough!), 

No kidding.  I still remember the hassles I had to go thru to
get the only lowercase printer on campus to emit lowercase given only 
an 029 keypunch (which didn't support lowercase) as the only
input device...  Those were the days.

>The essential difference between nroff and troff is troff's
>ability to handle variable-width characters, and to move
>freely around the page vertically and horizontally in small
>increments (1/720 inch).

Minor nit: 1/432's horizontally and 3/432's vertically.  I know C/A/T codes
rather intimately....

>Thus, a "fancy" nroff that takes advantage of new printers would, in fact,
>be troff.

Exactly.

One of these days I should implement a dumb ascii driver in psroff.
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