From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] OT: Paper on -mpm from 10th Edition. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-bewpldmgmwvuotbgvutkgiqehx" Message-Id: <20020208001319.8B25F19A55@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 00:14:12 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4e9bf822-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-bewpldmgmwvuotbgvutkgiqehx Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit there's a paper in a back issue of (USENIX) Computing Systems that describes the design and construction of the pm postprocessor and how the troff -mpm directives work with it. it was included with Plan 9 Second Edition. it's a C++ program, which might be one reason it wasn't included in Third Edition. (Second Edition included a version of cfront sufficient to compile it.) --upas-bewpldmgmwvuotbgvutkgiqehx Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu> Received: from punt-2.mail.demon.net by mailstore for forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk id 1013107883:20:25632:52; Thu, 07 Feb 2002 18:51:23 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by punt-2.mail.demon.net id aa2115672; 7 Feb 2002 18:51 GMT Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.18.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id D688D19A3F; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:15:07 -0500 (EST) Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from mercury.bath.ac.uk (mercury.bath.ac.uk [138.38.32.81]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 28497199E4 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:14:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from news by mercury.bath.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 16Ysgg-0006Yl-00 for 9fans@cse.psu.edu; Thu, 07 Feb 2002 17:50:22 +0000 Received: from GATEWAY by bath.ac.uk with netnews for 9fans@cse.psu.edu (9fans@cse.psu.edu) To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-ID: Organization: InputPlus Ltd. Subject: [9fans] OT: Paper on -mpm from 10th Edition. Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Help: List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 17:49:39 GMT Hi, http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/10thEdMan/ gives some documents from Volume 2 but not "The -mpm Macro Package" B. W. Kernighan and C. J. Van Wyk. Describes the -mpm macros, a version of -ms that does automatic page balancing. that is listed in http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/10thEdMan/v2contents.html. I've found very little mention of -mpm apart from this page although it is acknowledged in K&P's TPOP. Having failed to find a contact for those 10thEdMan pages I thought I'd ask here if there's any chance someone could make it available. There's a bunch of people on the GNU groff list that are interested in the page balancing aspects. Thanks, Ralph. --upas-bewpldmgmwvuotbgvutkgiqehx--