[Remind-Fans] The Good Old Days?

[W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.]

Finally somebody mentions something close to runoff :-)
Happy New Year!
- Robert
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From: Remind-fans <remind-fans-bounces at lists.skoll.ca> on behalf of Dianne Skoll via Remind-fans <remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca>
Sent: December 31, 2021 22:49
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Cc: Dianne Skoll
Subject: Re: [Remind-Fans] The Good Old Days?

On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 20:18:46 -0500
"Ian! D. Allen via Remind-fans" <remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:

> I could not stand Knuth's Computer Modern Ugly fonts used in TeX.

Well... they certainly are distinctive.  But I use this at the top
of all my LaTeX documents:

        \usepackage{times}

which typesets everything using the nicer Times Roman font rather than
Computer Modern.  It also changes the typewriter font to Courier,
I believe.

> My résumé is in troff (groff).

Rich Stevens of "Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment" was a
troff fan and wrote all his books with troff.

> Until I was forced to resign from teaching in 2019, I used a Perl
> script to randomize multiple-choice test questions and answers and
> create groff source to format individual PDF tests for every student
> in the room.

Nice!

Regards,

Dianne.

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