Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X

[Anthony J. Bentley]

Ralph Corderoy writes:
> > Apple doesn’t ship any *roff any more.  If you look at their
> > /usr/bin/man script, they commented out anything to do with groff and
> > only rely on mandoc.
>
> Odd.  That doesn't tally with what Ken said earlier.
>
>     https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2023-04/msg00008.html
>
>     - Tell MacOS X users to install groff(1) (the man(1) script will try
>       to call groff if it encounters a warning like this from mandoc)
>
> Perhaps he's referring to a different man script provided by another
> implementation or a different version of macOS?

Not all groff parts were commented out. It will use groff if installed
and if mandoc gives an unsupported warning.

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/man/blob/man-46/man/man.sh