On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 11:13:36AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] Re: Documenting a set of functions with -man
>
> At 2024-06-25T08:51:39-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> > Since the C/A/T held only four fonts, there was no room for
> > Courier.
> ...
> I had assumed that Ke
Hi Mychaela,
At 2024-06-25T11:15:32-0800, Mychaela Falconia wrote:
> G. Branden Robinson 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
G. Branden Robinson 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.
Are you certain that the bold in that book is real B font and no
G. Branden Robinson, just quick commentincle on this:
> So if "adjustment" is, as I claim, "the widening of
> the spaces between words until glyphs abut both the
> left and right margins", well, that's clearly not hap-
> pening here.
No, it is not. What you describe is "both" adjustment,
[looping the groff list back in; Doug's reply went to TUHS]
At 2024-06-25T08:51:39-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> > The lack of a monospaced font is, I suspect, due either to
> > physical limitations of the C/A/T phototypesetter[1] or fiscal
> > limitations--no budget in that department to buy pho
