I asked Brian Kernighan if he had recollections and/or documents from the early
days of nroff.
Hi, Mike --
All of the roff programs originate from Jerry Saltzer's Runoff, done for
CTSS. [nt]roff was unusual in having programmable layout (the trap
mechanism). I don't recall any place where this was all written down
in an orderly fashion, though it's interesting and maybe some enthusiast
could take it on. Maybe Doug McIlroy remembers -- he did a roff-like
program, as did I, and several others.
Brian
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Mike Bianchi
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