On Sun, 26 Jan 2020, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I'm inlining my findings in rendered and source form below, but there's > one feature I haven't been able to sort out--where did .SB (small bold) > come from? The oldest groff release I can find online is 1.02 (June > 1991), and .SB is already there, but I can't find it anywhere else. Is > it a GNUism? Did it perhaps appear in a proprietary Unix first?
I see .SB used in the C Manual - Language Edited by R.P.A. Collinson Document No: DOC/UNIX.K3.10/1 and UKC IO Library docs also from Collinson at Univ. of Kent. as found in the usenix-78-uk1 tape. Maybe that is uk1.tar at https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Spencer_Tapes/ I also see a SB Stymie Bold font in v7 troff.
