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Re: [Groff] man-page macro
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Bernd Warken |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] man-page macro |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Mar 2000 22:28:01 +0100 |
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 08:14:32AM +0000, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> > I propose to add the following macro .MP to both tmac.an and
> > tmac.mm. It is a convenient way to display a man page entry in the
> > style required by man(7).
>
> This means that your macro will be used commonly only for manual pages
> specific to GNU systems like Linux or FreeBSD. But then it is easy to
> add, say, a line
>
> .mso tmac.ext
>
> at the beginning of the man page which loads extensions and useful
> additions to various macro packages (not only related to man).
>
This approach makes sense, tho the name tmac.ext seems too general.
One is limited to troff requests.
One could define an extension file for each macro package, e.g.
tmac.<package>ext. Or a general tmac.gnu.
Bernd Warken <address@hidden>