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> I like to believe they hand formatted the ASCII back then That thesis is from 1989. There were plenty of ASCII text formatting tools available back then, suc
by greenyoda 3y ago
> I like to believe they hand formatted the ASCII back then
That thesis is from 1989. There were plenty of ASCII text formatting tools available back then, such as "nroff"[1] on Unix, which dates back to 1972. We weren't formatting hundred-page documents by hand.
(The RUNOFF program that nroff was based on was first released in 1964.)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nroff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nroff
- keepamovin 3y agoWow, I always thought this stuff was done by hand. I had no idea! Yeah, I recently discovered how to turn these old ascii docs into PDFs and page images in a way that preserves their beautiful formatting, using LaTeX: input_file="my_file_downloaded_from_textfiles.txt" cat <<TAO > "file.tex" \documentclass{article} \usepackage[left=2cm,right=1cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm]{geometry} % Adjust the global margin \usepackage{listings} \usepackage{beramono} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \lstset{% language={},% basicstyle=\ttfamily,% linewidth=19cm,% breaklines=true,% breakatwhitespace=false,% texcl=false,% literate={\\\}{{\textbackslash}}1 } \begin{document} \pagestyle{empty} % Remove page numbers \lstinputlisting{"$input_file"} \end{document} TAO I put it into a project here: https://github.com/dosyago/chai https://github.com/dosyago/chai