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Pub getting attention made my day. I wondered how everyone forgot about it and how no one ever mentioned that it actually gave birth to TeX and Web. Good job ha
by pmkary 2y ago
Pub getting attention made my day. I wondered how everyone forgot about it and how no one ever mentioned that it actually gave birth to TeX and Web. Good job hacker news
- throwaway81523 2y agotroff (1972) and eqn (1974) also existed. I don't know if they were influenced by PUB. SCRIPT (1968)[1] had macros but it's unclear whether they were present at the beginning or added later. RUNOFF (ancestor of troff) doesn't appear to have had macros. I've heard that Forth documentation was produced using a formatter written in Forth, that let the user switch between documet text and Forth code, but idk the dates or specific for this. Anyway I'm sure PUB was influential but the idea of markup languages with macros certainly wasn't unique to it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCRIPT_(markup) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCRIPT_(markup)
- pmkary 2y agoI actually came across this manual two months ago and studied it in deep. Your comment was greatly appreciated, I will research all of them. Thank you!
- larsbrinkhoff 2y agoI understand Scribe also started as a set of PUB macros.