Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "TYPSET and RUNOFF" in English language version.
IBM contracted Stuart Madnick of MIT to write a simple document preparation
"compose" was apparently a PL/I re-write of RUNOFF on Multics. […] the secondary record shows Dennis Capps as starting compose in 1974.
1967: SCRIPT (Stuart Madnick). In 1967, Madnick ported the RUNOFF code to the IBM CP67/CMS at IBM as SCRIPT.
ROFF which was in turn modeled after the Multics and CTSS program RUNOFF by Jerome Saltzer (that name came from the expression "to run off a copy").
Function: types out text segments in manuscript form.
Ken Thompson wrote a version of QED in BCPL, and Doug McIlroy and Bob Morris wrote Multics runoff in BCPL based on Jerry Saltzer's MAD version of RUNOFF
RUNOFF - An early text-formatting language supported under TOPS-10 on the PDP-10.
RUNOFF - An early text-formatting language supported under TOPS-10 on the PDP-10.
DSR stands for Digital Standard Runoff, a text formatter similar to roff.