From: jfairchild@tudado.org   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  writes:   
      
   > On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 21:47:14 -0700, The Real Bev wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 8/13/24 2:51 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   >> Possibly, but these were generating legal documents with a lot of   
   >> legalisms of various sorts and combinations, not just making pretty   
   >> documents.   
   >   
   > One of the groundbreaking features of troff was its ability to do line   
   > numbering -- rather important in legal documents such as patent   
   > applications.   
   >   
   > That was likely crucial in getting the Bell Labs crew the funding from the   
   > higher-ups at AT&T to develop Unix.   
      
   Thanks for sharing that.  Can you give me a historical reference about   
   that?  I'd like to read it.  Thank you!   
      
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