On 07/06/2016 01:47 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Depends what you mean by "word processor". If you mean 'software > intended to format text', you need to look back to things like TJ2: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TJ-2 > > and 'runoff', both circa 1963. Much earlier than any of the 'word > processors' this person wrote about.
I remember punching my documents on an 026 then running a FORTRAN formatter. Of course, there were many escape codes conventions in the formatter for stuff like boldface, underlining, tables, word-wrap suppression, "widow" control, etc. I wasn't unique in this--indeed the whole practice predates integrated circuits, I suspect. Perhaps the author counts only WYSIWYG-type wapros and that things like the MT/ST don't count either. --Chuck
