Re: [Groff] New version of the grolbp driver

[Steve Rich]

Works on Solaris, too.

sjr

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Andy Dougherty wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> > >      The only problem that I've found is with the removal of the tbl
> > > preprocessing when generating grolbp.n.
> 
> > My man system automatically uses `-t' (resp. can be adjusted with an
> > environment variable).
> 
> > Thus I believe it is better to not call tbl in advance -- there is the
> > `grog' command to assist people in finding out which preprocessor
> > should be used.
> 
> There is a very widespread convention to embed the necessary preprocessor
> commands as a comment in the first line of the man page.  Thus, if you
> want to use tbl, you put
> 
>        '\" t
> 
> as the first line in the file.  If you want both tbl and eqn, you put
> 
>        '\" te
> 
> The man package shipped with most linux distributions honors this
> directive.  You can run man --debug to see what preprocessors the man
> program thinks it needs to run.
> 
>     Andy Dougherty            address@hidden
>     Dept. of Physics
>     Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
> 
> 
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