Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!remus.rutgers.edu!romulus.rutgers.edu!plona From: plona@romulus.rutgers.edu (Lawrence Plona) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Q: nroff character sizes Keywords: nroff term Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 91 17:03:30 GMT References: <2133@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> <1991Jun11.115142.8419@phri.nyu.edu> <1991Jun11.193512.304@fido.wpd.sgi.com> Distribution: na Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 20 Philip K. Ronzone (pkr@sgi.com) > Actually, troff was written first. Nroff was a hack of troff that came > after. According to The UNIX Programming Environment by Kernighan and Pike, nroff came first and troff was written as an extended version. Apparently, nroff has been frozen since. The only change that comes to mind is the move from binary to text driving tables. Again, I'd like to say that I think that nroff should have been (I realize that its pointless now) updated with the increasing abilites of cheap printers. One look at an nroff driving table shows that the basis is already there. - Larry Plona -- Sit denique inscriptum in fronte unius "Let it finally be written on cuiusque quid de rebus publicis sentiat the forehead of each man what he - Cicero thinks of open systems"