root@raider.UUCP (Bob Reineri) (10/11/88)
I am having some problems getting nroff to format the manual pages correctly. I
am running Xenix SysVR2.2. Have used every macro package I have and still no
luck. Am I doing something terribly ignorant ?
The text all comes out in one blob, no page breaks, justified to both sides.
A Blatant Neophyte......
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UUCP: !{ames,osu-cis,rutgers,decwrl,mit-eddie}!killer!raider FIDO:1:116/12root@mjbtn.MFEE.TN.US (Mark J. Bailey) (10/14/88)
In article <13@raider.UUCP>, root@raider.UUCP (Bob Reineri) writes: > I am having some problems getting nroff to format the manual pages correctly. I > am running Xenix SysVR2.2. Have used every macro package I have and still no > luck. Am I doing something terribly ignorant ? > > The text all comes out in one blob, no page breaks, justified to both sides. > Bob, Don't you mean the *.mn files (ie, howto.mn, install.mn, etc.) instead of the regular *.1 files? I could format the *.1 files fine using: nroff -man file.1 but when I tried (and on three DIFFERENT UNIX's) to format the files that uses the 'mn' macros, I got blobbed up pages. I used: nroff -mmn howto.mn and even nroff -mn howto.mn and nothing worked. Is there anyone out there that ever got those *.mn files to format properly? If so, could someone please format them into a file (nroff bla bla bla > howto.fmtd, etc.) and mail them to me. Thanks in advance, Mark. -- Mark J. Bailey "Y'all com bak naw, ya hear!" USMAIL: 511 Memorial Blvd., Murfreesboro, TN 37129 ___________________________ VOICE: +1 615 893 4450 / +1 615 896 4153 | JobSoft UUCP: ...!{ames,mit-eddie}!killer!mjbtn!root | Design & Development Co. DOMAIN: root@mjbtn.MFEE.US.TN | Murfreesboro, TN USA
rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) (10/14/88)
To format the "*.1" manpages, do something like this: nroff -man dox.1 | col >dox.fmt To format the "*.mn" manpages, do something like this; nroff tmac.n dox.mn | col >dox.fmt The file "tmac.n" is the news macro package, and is part of the 2.11 distribution; it's documented in mn.7 (which uses the -man macros). If you do something like this cp tmac.n /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.n then you'll be able to do this nroff -mn dox.mn | col >dox.fmt The actual path for /usr/lib/tmac may be different on your machine; be like Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and run and find out. /rich$alz -- Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net.
rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) (10/15/88)
There is a Makefile in the directory with the documents. Try using it.