Re: [Groff] macro wrappers

[Werner LEMBERG]

> >> .cp 1
> >> .so /usr/share/lib/tmac/s
> >> 
> >> Doesn't this leave the user with compatibility mode on,
> >> regardless of whether or not the user has requested it?
> 
> Werner> Yes, this is intentional.
> 
> But that means that if I say
> 
>     groff -ms mydoc.ms
> 
> then mydoc.ms might or might not be processed in compatibility
> mode, depending on whether -ms gets a wrapper for the Unix macros.
> 
> If that behavior is intentional, there must be some kind of
> advantage associated with it, but I don't understand what it is.

If groff decides to install wrapper macros, it will make the groff
macro packages available with the `g' prefix.

So

  groff -ms mydoc.ms

will call the UNIX ms version, while

  groff -mgs mydoc.ms

uses groff's ms macros.


    Werner