Hi. > G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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.
Mychaela Falconia <fal...@freecalypso.org> wrote: > 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. The use of .bd is indeed the case. I asked. :-) >From BWK, forwarded by permission. > Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:02:06 -0400 (EDT) > From: Brian Kernighan <b...@cs.princeton.edu> > To: Aharon Robbins <arn...@skeeve.com> > Subject: Re: can you comment > > I can't find the macros we used, though I have the text itself. > I know that there were only 4 font positions, period. One of > those definitely was S, the special font. I think that we > mounted the CW font in position 3 for programs, and we used > the .bd command to simulate bold by overstriking with a small > offset. Joe Ossanna had added that to troff as a favor not > long before he died. > > The source for the second edition of Programming Style, which > dates from about the same time, is consistent with this. > > On Fri, 28 Jun 2024, Aharon Robbins wrote: > > > https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2024-June/030267.html > > > > Question has arisen as to how you got more than 4 font families > > when setting K&R-1. > > > > Arnold
