At 2024-03-17T12:59:51+0100, Alexis wrote:
> > I'm sorry I let this fall onto the floor. Picking it up...
>
> That's alright; thanks for picking it up again, much appreciated!
[...]
> Do let me know if you desire or require further testing or changes, or
> if I can be helpful in other ways to dri
On Sun, Mar 24, 2024, Steve Izma wrote:
> Do you remember what the costs of the Linotronic machines would
> have been?
IIRC, the 202 cost between $40,000 and $60,00 at the end of the
eighties. The 300 series ran about $60,000.
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Peter Schaffter
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"G. Branden Robinson" writes:
> It sounds like the way is clear to change perldoc's default back to
> Pod::Man plus nroff. ;-)
See https://github.com/briandfoy/pod-perldoc/pull/36. It looks like it's
being worked on, but there's apparently some complexity downstream of both
of us in figuring o
On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 03:39:45PM -0400, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> Subject: Re: the Courier font family and nroff history
>
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2024, Steve Izma wrote:
> > I tend to believe that Linotype was the driving force in the
> > release of a complete package for corporate typesetters: the
>
On Sat, Mar 23, 2024, Steve Izma wrote:
> I tend to believe that Linotype was the driving force in the
> release of a complete package for corporate typesetters: the
> Linotronic 202 (or something like it) driven by Adobe's new
> PostScript rasterizer (RIP), using ITC fonts, and with two
> choices
