From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 20:35:20 -0400 From: dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Troff macro package for patents MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7b6dcc74-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 It is known that (t)roff has been used to format patent applications, but I wonder: Are there any macros available for that specific task? All patents look the same, so I figure that macros or some kind of template would be great. / G.A. The patent typing time well antedated even nroff, and I don't remember what primitive macros were used. The main thing Ossanna did was to add two built-ins, .jo1 and .jo2; the first would produce line numbering as needed in the description part (number each successive line as on the page), while the second would start restart the numbering at each new claim. Could have been done with macros later. Dennis