OS-9 text formatting - what made this?

Allen Huffman via Coco <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Apr 2026 10:53:43 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I have an old text document with embedded dot formatting commands. I do not remember which tool I used to make it. I think this was under OS-9 at the time. I used the VED editor, and had VPT for it, but that VPT does not recognize the first code, so likely wasn’t used.

Anyone recognize these escapes?

.pl1
.lm0
.ll137
.nf
              //   //   //    //   //    //////   ///////   //////     /////    //   //   //    //////    //////
             // //     //     // //    //           //     //   //   //   //   ///  //   //   //        //
            ///       //      ///      /////       //     //////    //   //   //// //   //   //         /////    Incorporated.
           // //     //       //          //      //     //  //    //   //   // ////   //   //              //
          //    //  //////   //     //////       //     //   //    /////    //   //   //    //////    //////
.fi
.nj
.sp
.ce1
''Fine Klystrones Since 1989''
========================================================================================================================================
.sp
.lm20
.ll97
HELLO!  We are[14] sorry that we were unable to personally attend this[1] year's CocoFest.  We had some commercial accounts we needed to attend to and thus were unavailable.  We hope to see you[9] next year at the 1995 Chicago CocoFest or at the upcoming Klystrone Con[4] '95 in Aneheim.
.sp


Copilot AI was able to convert it for me and seems to have guessed properly, but I have a bunch of Sub-Etha Software manuals and such with these embedded codes and want to export them to formatted 80 column text documents so I can get them to the archive in a  better readable version than with all he dot codes.

Anyone know?


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