Am Dienstag, 10. Februar 2015, 20:43:10 schrieb Jones, Larry: > Steffen Nurpmeso <sdao...@yandex.com> writes: > > > > Heinz-Jürgen Oertel <hj.oer...@t-online.de> wrote: > > |Am Montag, 9. Februar 2015, 16:19:51 schrieb Peter Schaffter: > > |> Groffers -- > > |> > > |> I don't see any mention of this in the list archives, and it's too > > |> wonderful to miss. If you want a glimpse of days gone by, have a > > |> look at > > |> > > |> http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/751318.pdf > > | > > |I like this statement: > > |"ROFF is a computer program which produces esthetically pleasing \ > > |manuscripts from punched card source texts." > > > > ..and i hoped that it wasn't used for producing the document in > > question, seldom have i seen such huge gaps in between words, it's > > almost unreadable (in fact i gave up after a few pages)! > > "This report is itself an example of a ROFF generated manuscript." > > We're talking the dark ages here of line printers and automated typewriters, > both of which have fixed character spacing. When the only option is to insert > full spaces, that's the best you can do. (Personally, I'd have opted for a > ragged > margin instead.) > > -Larry Jones
It was 1972!. The result is not so bad for a typewriter. Consider that no hyphenation was used (or implemented) in roff. Heinz
