[comp.text] What roff macros does this use?

root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove) (02/20/89)

Can someone tell me what set of /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.* macros the following
runoff text (the first twenty lines from the publicly distributable "file"
replacement command from Ian Darwin [ sorry, don't have his address ] )
uses? I've tried "an", "m", "n", "s", and default, and none generate
a reasonable display format.

Here it is...

..TH FILE 1 "Copyright but distributable"
..SH NAME
..I file
\- determine file type
..SH SYNOPSIS
..B file
[
..B -c
]
[
..B -f
namefile ]
[
..B -m 
magicfile ]
file ...
..SH DESCRIPTION
..I File
tests each argument in an attempt to classify it.
There are three sets of tests, performed in this order:


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gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) (02/21/89)

In article <223@libove.UUCP> root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove) writes:
>Can someone tell me what set of /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.* macros the following
>runoff text ... uses?

It uses the troff -man (manual entry) macros, except somebody stuck
extra periods in front of the lines that start with a period.  Probably
some sick mail system did this.

crocker@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Crocker) (02/22/89)

Looks like -man (.../lib/tmac/tmac.an) to me.

Ron Crocker
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Naperville, IL 60566 
(312) 416-5262

kjk@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Ken Keirnan) (02/22/89)

In article <223@libove.UUCP> root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove) writes:
>
>Can someone tell me what set of /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.* macros the following
>runoff text ...

[ stuff deleted ]

>..TH FILE 1 "Copyright but distributable"
>..SH NAME
>..I file
>\- determine file type
>..SH SYNOPSIS
>..B file

Sure looks like man page macros (an) to me.  Just remove the *extra*
period in front of each macro call.  I wonder where those extra periods
came from...

Ken Keirnan




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