From: anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com   
      
   I wrote:   
      
   > Lawrence D'Oliveiro:   
   >   
   > > Actually,  no. Remember the addition of automatic line   
   > > numbers to troff was of great interest to AT&Tôs legal   
   > > department.   
   >   
   > Sounds MSWord-ish to me.  troff is the typesettng assem-   
   > bler, where high-level functionality is  implemented  in   
   > macros and macro packages.  Line-numbering would seem to   
   > be implementable as an output-line trap using a  counter   
   > in  a numeric register...  Perhaps, you were talking not   
   > about troff, but about one of its macro packages?   
      
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   sounce:   
      
     Lawrence D'Oliveiro:   
     .(Q   
     Actually, no. Remember the addition of automatic line numbers to troff was   
     of great interest to AT&Tôs legal department.   
     .)Q   
     Sounds MSWord-ish to me.   
     troff is the typesettng assembler,   
     where high-level functionality   
     is implemented in macros and macro packages.   
     Line-numbering would seem to be implementable   
     as an output-line trap using   
     a counter in a numeric register...   
     Perhaps, you were talking not about troff,   
     but about one of its macro packages?   
      
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