From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <40BEF9AF.2000800@chunder.com> Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 20:13:03 +1000 From: Bruce Ellis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] troff and 4.4BSD man pages References: <0cfa374ef618e89ef35af9f93e0d1da2@terzarima.net> <1276.63.165.50.175.1086204495.squirrel@wish.cooper.edu> <2147483647.1086216202@[192.168.2.101]> In-Reply-To: <2147483647.1086216202@[192.168.2.101]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 928a37da-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 ummm, excuse me - but troff was the perhaps the best supported program at the labs. if groff works with and troff doesn't well guess which one is wrong. when in doubt avoid programs that start with 'g' ... except grep. and why isn't there a ggrep. that would get 100 morons typing straight away. brucee Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > 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