Dilwyn,
I had a look back at some issues of Quanta:
Volume 7 Issue 9 October 1990 Page 28 HYPERTEXT ON THE QL by Mark Knight
Volume 8 Issue 9 October 1991 Page 21 HYPERTEXT, GOLD CARD & MATHS by
Mark Knight
Looks like Mark was writing some Hypertext suite of programs, but
abandoned the project due to lack of time.
I am sure there was another Hypertext project a little earlier than 1990.
Derek
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I now remember correponding briefly with Ralf Rekoendt about the TeX
system back then.
Yes, I still have the disks from Tony Tebby with TeX and MetaFont
sources in C. He once wanted to convert that for SMSQ (a very long
time ago he also wanted to write a C2SB converter....never
done...perhaps?).
Maybe we all remember the days, when he has written the "QJump
Newsletter" or personal letters with "qplq", a kind of typesetting
program similar to TeX, written in SuperBASIC only for the Epson LQ
1xxx and Epson LQ 2xxx series. It e.g. allows to print l+r justified
with proportional font , tabs etc. and that was not possible with any
kind of program for the QL in the 80's (except text87, but that was
very much later). Text was just written ad hoc in an editor and
typesetted with control codes á la "\xxx" to justify at will, very
similar to TeX.
Unfortunately, qplq was one of Tony's "inhouse" programs, which never
saw the light of day. I have written a wman GUI for that with QPTR
many years ago and Tony allowed me to release it to the Public
Domain, which I haven't done for unknown reasons. Should be a good
idea to send it to Dilwyn 8-) (but I think....he should have it, even
he should have a lot of letters from me printed with that).
I still use this program under SMSQE with Marcel's print program (BTW
thanks to Marcel to correct a small but very important bug in qplq.).
Cheers...Ralf
A very interesting reply. And yes, I'd be happy to add it to my
website if Ralf wishes. I never had a copy of the system from Ralf
AFAIK, but I did receive many letters from Ralf in the 1980s, which I
know were done with Tex or a Tex-like system, because I remember he
mentioned it several times.
I've sent a summary of the replies to Terry in Australia to see if
this jogs his memory about the system he was using back then.
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