[rescue] [off-topic] What was this markup language?

[Tom Manos]

You didn't mention what the output should be, but I'd guess pdf would work.

Check here: http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/ for a modern-ish and free
version of lots of cool old Unix stuff, including n/troff.

Tom

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On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 7:27 AM, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> SWAG - TROFF/NROFF?
>
> Lionel
>
> > On Dec 8, 2015, at 7:14 AM, microcode at zoho.com wrote:
> >
> > I have dim memories of making a little money editing term papers on a
> DEC-20
> > in the early 1980s. It seems to me I used some kind of markup language
> where
> > the directives started with a "." character in the first column of the
> > line. I was able to do indenting and alignment and other text-processing
> stuff to
> > make the papers print out nicely.
> >
> > Years went by and I forgot all about that. When I started wondering about
> it
> > again I thought it must have been PostScript. When I search the net now I
> > can't find any evidence PostScript is used as a markup language for
> writing
> > letters or papers and all the search results for postscript in the
> context
> > of letters are unhelpful. All the examples and even the stuff
> downloadable
> > from Adobe and other places seems to focus on image presentation and even
> > doing math rather than text markup.
> >
> > Does anybody want to take a SWAG what this was? I am nearly certain it
> was
> > not Tex or LateX but I just don't remember. It seems to me it was real
> easy
> > to learn and get rolling with, that's why I suspect it wasn't LaTeX.
> >
> > Next question, other than LaTeX, are there any good choices in simple
> markup
> > languages suitable for writing letters and resumes, etc.? I'm not really
> > happy with Open/Libre Office nor the direction it's going in. I'd like to
> > look into some alternative where the input stays as ASCII text.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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