Re: DocLang
Bob Eager <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:41:06 -0400, Scott Dorsey wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, > Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= <[email protected]> wrote: >>On Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:17:43 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote: >> >>> Why can't people just use TeX markup like God and Knuth intended? >> >>Because troff came first. > > troff was just an updated runoff. TeX was a different order of > magnitude; > it was up with commercial typesetting systems like Xics. > --scott troff was a development of roff, which included some typesetting features. roff was named as a UNIX-style (shorter word) version of DEC's Runoff.