* Re: [9fans] OT: Paper on -mpm from 10th Edition.
@ 2002-02-08 0:14 forsyth
2002-02-08 11:12 ` rob pike
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From: forsyth @ 2002-02-08 0:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
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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.)
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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] OT: Paper on -mpm from 10th Edition.
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 17:49:39 GMT
Message-ID: <a3ue0a$hqk$1@inputplus.demon.co.uk>
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.
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* Re: [9fans] OT: Paper on -mpm from 10th Edition.
2002-02-08 0:14 [9fans] OT: Paper on -mpm from 10th Edition forsyth
@ 2002-02-08 11:12 ` rob pike
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From: rob pike @ 2002-02-08 11:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
all correct. i didn't want to include a program that couldn't be
compiled and the cfront is so old that no one cares.
forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk wrote:
> 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.)
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject:
>
> [9fans] OT: Paper on -mpm from 10th Edition.
> Date:
>
> Thu, 7 Feb 2002 17:49:39 GMT
> To:
>
> 9fans@cse.psu.edu
>
>
> 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.
>
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* Re: [9fans] OT: Paper on -mpm from 10th Edition.
@ 2002-02-07 21:07 dmr
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From: dmr @ 2002-02-07 21:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Wait until Rob gets back. The macros seem
to exist on one of the Unix machines.
I'll ask Brian about the memo.
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* [9fans] OT: Paper on -mpm from 10th Edition.
@ 2002-02-07 17:49 Ralph Corderoy
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From: Ralph Corderoy @ 2002-02-07 17:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
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.
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