Re: [TUHS] Re: Original print of V7 manual? / My own version of troff

[John Gardner]

>
> Are you offering to donate your labor in terms of typeface design, or will
> it be a type of deal where the community will need to collectively pitch in
> money to cover the cost of you doing it professionally?


I only meant "professional" insofar as aptitude with graphics is concerned.
I won't accept money; I'm offering my labour out of love for typography,
computer history and its preservation, and of course, the technology that
got Unix the funding it needed to revolutionise computing. In any case,
there's no actual "design" work involved: it's literally just tracing
existing shapes to recreate an existing design. I do stuff like this
<https://github.com/file-icons/icons#why-request-an-icon-cant-i-submit-a-pr>
for *fun*, for crying out loud.

Here are the few published scans I am aware of:

Nice! The more material I have, the merrier. As for the scan that Branden
and I were referring to, I've uploaded a copy to Dropbox
<https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xdkq15am4zon6uosbk0m9/CSTR_54_1976.pdf?rlkey=edu8ftqj33klr6lpjcrjlpdxm&dl=0>
for you.

Cheers,
— John

On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 at 18:00, Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
wrote:

> John Gardner wrote:
>
> > I'm a professional graphic designer with access to commercial typeface
> > authoring software. Send me the highest-quality and most comprehensive
> > scans of a C/A/T-printed document, and I'll get to work.
>
> Are you offering to donate your labor in terms of typeface design, or
> will it be a type of deal where the community will need to collectively
> pitch in money to cover the cost of you doing it professionally?
>
> In either case, the "C/A/T-printed document" of most value to this
> project would be the same one G. Branden Robinson is referring to:
>
> > If you don't have my scan of CSTR #54 (1976), which helpfully dumps all
> > of the glyphs in the faces used by the Bell Labs CSRC C/A/T-4, let me
> > know and I'll send it along.  I won't vouch for its high quality but it
> > should be comprehensive with respect to coverage.
>
> The paper in question is Nroff/Troff User's Manual by Joseph F. Ossanna,
> dated 1976-10-11, which was indeed also CSTR #54.  The document is 33
> pages long in its original form, and page 31 out of the 33 is the most
> interesting one for the purpose of font recreation: it is the page that
> exhibits all 4 fonts of 102 characters each.  Here are the few published
> scans I am aware of:
>
> 1) Page 245 of:
>
>
> http://bitsavers.org/pdf/att/unix/7th_Edition/UNIX_Programmers_Manual_Seventh_Edition_January_1979_Volume_2A_SRI_Reprint_June_1980.pdf
>
> 2) Page 235 of:
>
>
> http://bitsavers.org/pdf/att/unix/7th_Edition/UNIX_Programmers_Manual_Seventh_Edition_Vol_2_1983.pdf
>
> 3) Page 239 of:
>
>
> http://bitsavers.org/pdf/att/unix/7th_Edition/VA-004A_UNIX_Programmers_Manual_Edition_Seven_Volume_2A_197901.pdf
>
> 4) Page 499 of:
>
> https://archive.org/details/uum-supplement-4.2bsd
>
> Question to Branden: the scan you are referring to as "my scan", how
> does it compare to the 4 I just linked above?  If your scan has better
> quality than all 4 versions I linked above, can you please make it
> public?
>
> M~
>