mike@grainne.lbl.gov (Michael Helm) (12/13/88)
I'm in the process of putting up Elm 2.1P1 on a couple of systems.
I'd like to troff the docs, but I don't seem to have the rite macro
packages here. The Elm Makefile wants to run *.guide documentation
thru the "mm" macro package -- what's that? (Please excuse my ignorance.)
I did find a version of "mm" on an HP-9000, but it seems to be only
the nroff side of things. I tried a few other macro pkgs I have on
a Sun, but the results didn't quite look rite (Dave Taylor sent me
a formatted set for an earlier version of Elm, so I know rufly what
the *.fmtd guides should look like).
Does anybody have any good ideas on how to get a nice set of guides
troffed up? I'd sure like to hear yours!
Thanks,
Michael Helm (Internet M_Helm@lbl.gov)
(or maybe ...!ucbvax!lbl-csam!lbl.gov!M_Helm)pae@cos.com (Paul A. Ebersman) (12/13/88)
From article <1457@helios.ee.lbl.gov>, by mike@grainne.lbl.gov (Michael Helm): > I'm in the process of putting up Elm 2.1P1 on a couple of systems. > I'd like to troff the docs, but I don't seem to have the rite macro > packages here. The Elm Makefile wants to run *.guide documentation > thru the "mm" macro package -- what's that? (Please excuse my ignorance.) > I did find a version of "mm" on an HP-9000, but it seems to be only > the nroff side of things. I tried a few other macro pkgs I have on > a Sun, but the results didn't quite look rite (Dave Taylor sent me > a formatted set for an earlier version of Elm, so I know rufly what > the *.fmtd guides should look like). I have elm on a Sun and Sun does not ship the "mm" macro set. It is a strictly AT&T macro. There are 3 possibilities for you. 1) get a troff guru to convert nroff format to troff. 2) "find" a troff version of the mm macro from someone with AT&T System V. 3) Have all docs put into Postscript form and shipped that way as well as in n/troff. The problem with this is that it takes up way too much space and not everyone's laser printer is postscript. If there are a lot of people who have postscript, but not "mm", maybe we can have a separate "hardcopy" file with the source and patches for those who want it. Archivers, any problems with this???? -- Paul A. Ebersman @ Corporation for Open Systems pae@cos.COM or pae%cos.com@uunet.uu.net or {uunet, sundc, hadron}!cos!pae ( The difference between practice and theory in practice is always greater than the difference between practice and theory in theory. )