Re: [TUHS] Re: Documenting a set of functions with -man

[Mychaela Falconia]

G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:

> So maybe they had access to a CAT-8 after all, and used a whopping 5
> different font plates.  Or they used a CAT-4 and had to compose many
> pages in two passes.  That would have been mightily tedious.

Are you certain that the bold in that book is real B font and not .bd
construct?  I am not sure about the full K&R book, but the C Reference
Manual doc in vol 2 seems to have been troff'ed with .bd for bold
(while keepting R, I, S and adding CW), ditto for the UNIX Programming
doc in the same volume that similarly uses CW for program listings.

M~