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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/15/2015 7:43 PM, Reinhard Kotucha
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<pre wrap="">On 2015-05-15 at 15:03:20 +0200, Martin Schröder wrote:
> 2015-05-15 14:44 GMT+02:00 Peter Cumminsky <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cummip@gmail.com"><cummip@gmail.com></a>:
>> Unfortunately, it's not a variant of roff, it's TeX for CP/M by
>> Digital Research. As I said I have the manual for DR's TEX,
>> here's a quote from the
>> title page:
>> "The "TEX User's Guide" was prepared using the
>> TEX Text Formatter."
>> and trademark paragraph:
>> "The names CP/M, SID, MAC, TEX, and Digital
>> Research are trademarks of Digital Research."
>> It's just one of the infinite varieties of commercialized TeX put
>> out in the late 70's (1978 in this case) by various and sundry
>> vendors.
>
> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://maben.homeip.net/static/S100/software/DRI/tex%20formatter/TEX%20Text%20Formatter%20CPM.pdf">http://maben.homeip.net/static/S100/software/DRI/tex%20formatter/TEX%20Text%20Formatter%20CPM.pdf</a>
>
> I seriously doubt that this program shares anything with DEK's TeX
> aside from the three letters of the name.
Absolutely correct, Martin. Here is the definite answer:
Donald E. Knuth, "Digital Typography", footnote on page 27.
| \TeX\ has no connection with a similar-named system recently
| announced by Honeywell Information Systems, or with another one
| developed by Digital Research. In my language the T, E, and X are
| Greek letters and \TeX\ is pronounced "tech", following the Greek
| words for art and technology.
Thus, Peter, there is no "TeX for CP/M". This one is called "TEX".
I never expected that a slightly different spelling leads to so much
confusion.
Regards,
Reinhard
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Oh well, I'm just going to give up on this project for now I guess.
I did try TR2LEX (tr2latex on my GnuWin installation) and it gave up
after the first half-dozen errors on the dot-commands. Maybe I'll
try substitution/macros in roff/troff/goff when I come back to this.
Thanks for the info guys, ancient computer stuff is never simple.<br>
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| Peter Cumminsky <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cummip@gmail.com"><cummip@gmail.com></a>
| [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://plus.google.com/+PeterCumminsky">http://plus.google.com/+PeterCumminsky</a>]
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| page." - Andy Warhol overheard chatting with Nico, 1967
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