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Subject: mm macros with 4bsd nroff
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Has anybody gotten the mm macros to work with Berkeley nroff/troff?
Mark
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Subject: Re: mm macros with 4bsd nroff
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The mm macros use some features that were added to the System III [nt]roff.
I suspect that it is easier to get the System III (or V) [nt]roff to run under
4.xbsd rather than try to fix the mm macros not to use the added features.
I am currently trying to port the System V [nt]roff to 4.1bsd. It is a
background project though and so may take some time. Naturally I will only
be able to distribute this to holders of System V licences.
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Subject: Re: mm macros with 4bsd nroff
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Thanks to Peter Honeyman for solving the major problem
(that of running out of temp file space) - the fix is
to increase TEMP from 256 to 512 in tdef.h.
I'm still having minor problems with page numbers (they appear
to be 103 digits long), but that may be specific to the
documents I'm running off. The best solution seems to be to
wait until we get System V here, and bring that up on 4bsd.
Mark
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Subject: Re: mm macros with 4bsd nroff
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1. The TEMP file space problem affects only nroff not troff
2. Page numbering is one of the areas where mm uses the features
added to >System III [nt]roff that I alluded to in my earlier
article. Specifically mm is trying to find out the page number
format by using the \g request which doesn't exist in v7/4.1 [nt]roff.
That results in the 103 digit page numbers complete with leading
zeros.
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