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Back in the day we had engineers writing documents from markup. We called them typesetters. It was a qualified job, you don't expect the task to be something Jo
by HarryHirsch 6y ago
Back in the day we had engineers writing documents from markup. We called them typesetters. It was a qualified job, you don't expect the task to be something Joe Random could to with 6 weeks of training.
- SilasX 6y agoAt risk of gatekeeping, it doesn’t sound like typesetters merit the title of engineer.
- formerly_proven 6y agoThat's because it wasn't.
- dewey 6y agoBack in the days operating a computer also needed weeks of training and was a qualified job. That doesn't mean it always has to stay that way.
- throw0101a 6y ago> Back in the day we had engineers writing documents from markup. Back in the day secretaries were creating electronic documents with troff and nroff: > The first version of Unix was developed on a PDP-7 which was sitting around Bell Labs. In 1971 the developers wanted to get a PDP-11 for further work on the operating system. In order to justify the cost for this system, they proposed that they would implement a document-formatting system for the Bell Labs patents department[1]. This first formatting program was a reimplementation of McIllroy's roff, written by Joe F. Ossanna. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troff
- rmbeard 6y agoOP, here. It's not that long ago, I've used troff myself. Or maybe it was that long ago, but it just seems like yesterday.