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

[Lennart Jablonka]

Quoth John Gardner:
> Thanks for reminding me, Branden. :) I've yet to get V7 Unix working with
> the latest release of SimH, so that's kind of stalled my ability to develop
> something in K&R-friendly  C.

I went ahead and write a little C/A/T-to-later-troff-output 
converter in v7-friendly and C89-conforming C:

https://git.sr.ht/~humm/catdit

I’m not confident in having got the details of spacing right (Is 
that 55-unit offset when switching font sizes correct?) and the 
character codes emitted are still those of the C/A/T, resulting in 
the wrong glyphs being used.

I created the attached document like this:

        v7$ troff -t /usr/man/man0/title >title.cat
        host$ catdit <title.cat | dpost -F. -Tcat >title.ps

(Where do the two blank pages at the end come from?)

PS: Branden, for rougher results, if you happen to have 
a Tektronix 4014 at hand (like the one emulated by XTerm), you can 
use that to look at v7 troff’s output.  Tell your SIMH to pass 
control bytes through and run troff -t | tc.

title.ps
Description: PostScript document