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Probably the other way round: roff/troff/nroff is older than TeX. I guess that on old computer typesetters, ` and ' turned into nicely balanced quotes.
by gpvos 9y ago
Probably the other way round: roff/troff/nroff is older than TeX. I guess that on old computer typesetters, ` and ' turned into nicely balanced quotes.
- tankenmate 9y agoroff was the financial back reason that Unix moved from PDP-7 / assembler to PDP-11 / C. http://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/class/aosref/ritchie84evolution.pdf http://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/class/aosref/ritchi...