Re: OS-9 text formatting - what made this?

That looks like nroff, there is an nroff for OS-9. I forget where I got 
it from, but I still have it. I am pretty sure it's included on the 
NitrOS9 petition of this hard disk image: 
https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Virtual%20Hard%20Drives/NitrOS-9%20L2%20V3.3.0/

On 2026-04-01 18:02, [email protected] wrote:
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> If its older tron/troff (or whatever OS called it) that is
> page length
> left margin
> Line length
> no fill
> 
> Maybe groff was used?  Or just did it by hand?
> 
> to updated it to 80 columns, I would try copilot first.  This seems 
> like it may be a solved problem that Copilot can patch up well enough.
> 
> In any case, happy April 1!  
> https://subethasoftware.com/2026/04/01/klystronics/
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> 
> 
> From: Coco <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Allen 
> Huffman via Coco
> Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2026 10:54 AM
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> Cc: Allen Huffman <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Coco] OS-9 text formatting - what made this?
> 
> 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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