cosell@BBN-LABS-B.ARPA (09/22/84)
From: Bernie Cosell <cosell@BBN-LABS-B.ARPA>
Berkeley usurped '.TM' to be 'thesis mode', whereas the original
'.TM' was 'Technical memo'. Our 4.2 system now has a /usr/doc
half full of troff sources that we can't re-troff because the
'.TM' screws up the format (Bell thought TMs should be single
spaced, Berkeley thinks TMs should be double spaced).
Does anyone know if the Berkeley folk were thoughtful enough
to provide some way to make '.TM' work in the original 'bell' way?
Or is there some known 'improvement' to the macros to restore the
old way it worked?
Thanks
/Bernie
cosell@bbn-unixdaven@LLL-CRG.ARPA (09/22/84)
From: Dave Nelson <daven@LLL-CRG.ARPA> I believe that the old ms macros currently reside in /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.os, and can hence be used by: troff -mos ... Give it a try. Dave Nelson
merlyn@sequent.UUCP (09/23/84)
> From: Dave Nelson <daven@LLL-CRG.ARPA> > I believe that the old ms macros currently reside in /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.os, > and can hence be used by: > > troff -mos ... > > Give it a try. > > Dave Nelson Sorry, it's even worse than that. -mos is still Berkeley's 4.x-ish ms macros. We needed to go onto a V7 tape to get the REAL ms macros to retypeset half of the Bell documentation. We have it installed on our systems as -msbell now. We also ship these macros with our product. That should be a hint to people that are porting 4.2 to their favorite machine for resale. Be sure that the customers receive whatever files are necessary to reformat the documentation. For our product, we also fixed the /usr/doc/run script to make it possible, REALLY, to reformat the myriad of text from Volume 2. -- A particularly personal and original observation from the thought-stream of Randal L. ("text wizard") Schwartz, esq. (merlyn@sequent.UUCP) (Former Official Legendary Sorcerer of the 1984 Summer Olympics) Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. (503)626-5700 (sequent = 1/quosine) UUCP: {decwrl,ogcvax,pur-ee,rocks34,shell,unisoft,vax135,verdix}!sequent!merlyn