Re: Description of the naming conventions for variables, macros, etc in MS?

[Larry Kollar]

T. Kurt Bond <tkurtbond@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a description of the naming conventions used in the groff ms
> macros for variables, macros, and so forth?  An * seems to mean
> internal and ! seems to mean array, for instance.  What does @ mean?

I think it’s an internal destination-like thing. For example, a lot of 
paragraph-type
macros have a special definition at the beginning of the document, then they’re
all aliased to their @XX equivalent (.als LP @LP, etc).

        Larry