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

Doesn't scred use dot commands? I seem to remember something about them in
scred. it's been a long time since I've even booted my CoCo3, I've had
enough issues keeping windoze running that I haven't reinatalled drivewire
in my winbox.

On Wed, Apr 1, 2026 at 1:17 PM John Guin via Coco <coco-JX7+OpRa80Qorr/[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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
> *To:* CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts (new) <
> [email protected]>
> *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
>
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>
> 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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>
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