From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 08:40:55 -0700, The Real Bev wrote:   
      
   > A curious WP thing:  I temped for some title insurance people for a few   
   > weeks. They had a system where knowledgeable people would fill in   
   > (pencil) a template with codes indicating various descriptions etc. for   
   > the drones to type in.  After a while I (a drone) realized that the   
   > whole system was done with Word Perfect macro codes, a pretty slick   
   > application.   
      
   So they were reinventing the kind of thing that typesetting markup systems   
   (troff/groff, TEX, SGML) have been doing for decades.   
      
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