From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 22:43:22 -0600 From: Lyndon Nerenberg To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-ID: <2147483647.1086216202@[192.168.2.101]> In-Reply-To: <1276.63.165.50.175.1086204495.squirrel@wish.cooper.edu> References: <0cfa374ef618e89ef35af9f93e0d1da2@terzarima.net> <1276.63.165.50.175.1086204495.squirrel@wish.cooper.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [9fans] troff and 4.4BSD man pages Topicbox-Message-UUID: 90fd231e-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 --On 2004-6-2 3:28 PM -0400 Joel Salomon wrote: > lucio@proxima.alt.za said: >> And while I'm at it, has anyone figured out why even with the actual >> object macros, I can't get Plan 9 troff (or nroff?) to present the >> NetBSD man pages anywhere near readably? Suggestions on how to get >> this fixed will be gratefully accepted. Rewriting the man pages is >> not much of an option, of course. > Differences between plan9's -man and groff's -man, or is netbsd using > another macro set? Just a guess. 4.4BSD introduced the 'doc' macro package. It's a more structured variant of the 'an' macro package. All the 4.4BSD man pages were changed over to use -mdoc. Writing a Plan9 native set of 'doc' macros is on my todo list, but it's not going to happen any time soon. (Although if a working troff pops up in the ports CVS tree, this will become a much higher priority for me.) --lyndon