[9fans] OT: Paper on -mpm from 10th Edition.

[9fans] OT: Paper on -mpm from 10th Edition.

[Ralph Corderoy]

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.

Re: [9fans] OT: Paper on -mpm from 10th Edition.

[rob pike]

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.
> 

Re: [9fans] OT: Paper on -mpm from 10th Edition.

[forsyth]

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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.

Re: [9fans] OT: Paper on -mpm from 10th Edition.

[dmr]

Wait until Rob gets back.  The macros seem
to exist on one of the Unix machines.
I'll ask Brian about the memo.