Re: [Groff] Re: troff.org

[ralph]

Hi Larry,

> This is probably a fair amount of work, but it would be nice if both
> "books" sections included the year of publication & number of pages
> in each entry.

OK, I'll consider it and have added it to the two pages to-do lists.

> Also, I'm not sure exactly why Martin Richards is included in the
> "Who's who" page... from what I was able to find, he invented BCPL
> (one of the programming languages used in one of troff's ancestors)
> but if that's the only link, we should also include the person who
> invented PDP assembly language. :-)

You're right.  I was getting fed up with the idea of linking to bwk on
his every mention :-)  So I came up with the idea of the Who's Who
page.  Just as a starting point really I put people on it who were
mentioned in history.html as that was the page I was working on.
Martin Richards was one of them.  I'll probably take him out when I
work on that area further.

> Or perhaps a sentence per person to explain their contribution would
> be good... not everyone knows who Joe Ossanna is, for example.

Oh, I'm planning on a bit of bio. text along with links to any home
page, and also links within the site to the books they've written,
papers, preprocessors, etc.

At the moment there are just placeholders :-(

Thanks for the comments,


Ralph.