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		cat199 on Dec 22, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Learn: Ancient troff sources vs. modern-day groff Real V7/PWB UNIX pros write m4/cpp macros to cross-compile their custom semantic/structural macros + document body fragments into troff and then generate final output from that..

dhimes on Dec 23, 2017 | [–]

And use a typewriter to put on the page numbers- because of that $%#& margin requirement...

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