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From: "Vester Thacker" <vester.thacker@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] mm macro documentation
Date: Mon,  8 Jan 2007 14:26:27 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32a656c20701072126m2f99a809n111d84fea14d98e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33689.66.222.64.178.1168229202.squirrel@66.222.64.178>

The Troff's User Manual might be helpful to you, see
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/troff.pdf

Regards,
Vester


On 1/8/07, Benn Newman <newmanbe@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> Plan 9 includes the ?roff mm macros (/sys/lib/tmac/tmac.m) but no
> documentation. Anyone know what is up with that? I printed out a boot-leg
> version of one of O'Reilly's books that has mm documenation but it is not
> complete (doesn't document letters, for example, which Plan 9's troff has)
> and its not in everyone's favourite man(6).
>
> But as always, it beats groff! It's implementation and documentation of mm
> are brain dead.
> --
> Benn Newman
>
>


  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-08  5:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-08  4:06 Benn Newman
2007-01-08  5:26 ` Vester Thacker [this message]
2007-01-08  8:24 ` Steve Simon
2007-01-09  3:33 ` Benn Newman
2007-01-09  4:17   ` geoff
2007-01-09 21:28     ` [9fans] sources website down? (Was mm macro documentation) Benn Newman
2007-01-09 21:42       ` Steve Simon
2007-01-09 22:03         ` Russ Cox
2007-01-09  3:36 ` [9fans] mm macro documentation Benn Newman
2007-01-12 16:29 ` Joel Salomon
2007-01-12 16:38   ` Russ Cox
2007-01-12 16:52     ` Joel Salomon
2007-01-12 16:58       ` Brantley Coile
2007-01-12 21:41   ` Benn Newman
     [not found] ` <7871fcf50701120854m324de823n95ad6063c64706b6@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <45a7c087./GnK/XcvjKEA/dVq%gunnarr@acm.org>
2007-01-12 17:12     ` Fwd: Fwd: " Joel Salomon
2007-01-12 10:56 Aharon Robbins
2007-01-12 21:48 ` Benn Newman

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