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Re: [Groff] Choosing a portability target
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Eric S. Raymond |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Choosing a portability target |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:17:08 -0500 |
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Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
>
> > HOWEVER, if groff can be compiled and run on HP-UX, groff-oriented
> > man pages will also need to be installed in the usual directories on
> > HP-UX systems, and HP-UX users will expect to be able to run the man
> > command on those pages.
>
> If groff finds another troff package already installed on the system,
> it renames itself to gtroff, geqn, gtbl, etc.; macros have to be
> called as `-mgms', `-mgan', and `-mgmm'.
If groff is going to go to this much trouble, maybe we should drop
back to two-character macros and \*( only in the groff pages. Otherwise
aren't they going to break? Or does .mso have magic behavior that
prevents this?
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<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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