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From: rog@vitanuova.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] macro files with troff
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 22:25:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010219212048.B05ED199F8@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)

> When I begin writing the document with acme, how do I
> identify all the 'requests' set in the packages? For example, Would I need
> to look in /sys/lib/tmac/tmac.s for info on the -ms
> package or is there a table set up for them somewhere?
> Any other hints on how to begin using this would be
> appreciated.

ms(6) is useful here, but extremely terse.  you can get quite a long
way with this and copying idioms from the various examples in
/sys/doc.

what you really want is the documentation in the 10th edition
manuals... i doubt they're still in print though.

  rog.



             reply	other threads:[~2001-02-19 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-19 22:25 rog [this message]
     [not found] <wstan@localhostnl.demon.nl>
2001-02-20  3:10 ` William Staniewicz
2001-02-19 21:21   ` Scott Schwartz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-02-19 22:09 dmr
2001-02-19 21:20 Russ Cox

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