From: M Douglas McIlroy Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 20:56:13 -0400 To: Ingo Schwarze Subject: Re: Who is the author of the man(7) macros? Ingo, I edited v7 volume 1. The work included revising the man macros, making any systematic changes that entailed, and writing man(7). The format of the request summary in man(7) (and in other roff-related documents) originated in my 1969 manual for roff. You may use this response as you wish. Doug From: M Douglas McIlroy Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 10:22:09 -0400 To: Ingo Schwarzeo Cc: G. Branden Robinson Only 3 editions of the research Unix manual had a volume 2. v6, edited by Ken Thompson v7 edited by Brian Kernighan v10 edited by Andrew Hume.