Hello Ingo, > On Oct 14, 2020, at 7:10 AM, Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: > > Finally, there is an obvious, rather serious error. I do not think > misattribution should be taken lightly: > > the man macro package, originally written by James Clark > > The correct statement is: > > The man language first appeared as a macro package for the roff > typesetting system in Version 7 AT&T UNIX. It was later rewritten > by James Clark as a macro package for groff. > > I'm not sure which member(s) of the Bell Labs originally designed > and implemented the man(7) macros, but it clearly wasn't James Clark.
Interesting. As far as I can tell, the origin of that statement is in man 7 groff_man: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man7/groff_man.7.html I have no insight myself on the original authorship, just quoting from the manual. Best -F
