From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3C63B2AE.50705@plan9.bell-labs.com> From: rob pike User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] OT: Paper on -mpm from 10th Edition. References: <20020208001319.8B25F19A55@mail.cse.psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 06:12:46 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4ec376cc-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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. >