21 May
2014
21 May
'14
4:32 p.m.
In article <539CFBE84C931A4E8516F3BBEA36C7AA0185871F16 at 505MBX2.corp.vnw.com>,
Rich Alderson <RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org> writes:
troff was dominant in unix typesetting before TeX become prominent.
Relevant wikipedia pages:
1964 RUNOFF <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RUNOFF>
1976 troff <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troff#cite_note-1>
1978 TeX <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX>
1981 ditroff <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troff>
I don't think TeX gained widespread popularity until TeX82 in 1982. I
remember first encountering it around 1983/1984 as an undergraduate.
Given that all the man pages were written in troff with the 'an' macro
set, I think most pre-internet unix users were introduced to troff long
before TeX and certainly before LaTeX.
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From: Richard
The more I
think about it, the more I think troff may have been used.
It was for typesetting, after all :-)
What, and (La)TeX wasn't??? ;-)