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Re: [Groff] mm docs


From: Larry Kollar
Subject: Re: [Groff] mm docs
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 07:58:08 -0400

address@hidden wrote:

> The only docs I have so far uncovered that cover mm are the good old 
> manpages. This is ok, but do perhaps other docs exist also? :-P

The mm chapter from Unix Text Processing is pretty good, but
doesn't cover advanced topics.

        http://www.alltel.net/~kollar/utp/ch06.t.gz

You'll need the utp macros to process it:

        http://www.alltel.net/kollar/utp/utp.tar.gz

> I find the 
> manpages ... a though read ... and groff & friends howto is ms oriented (and 
> gpresent is making exclusive use of mm macros). 

I had to read the manpage three or four times before it started
making sense to me. I'm planning to give it a thorough rewrite
like I did for the ms manpage.

-- 
Larry Kollar   k o l l a r  at  a l l t e l . n e t
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information life cycle."   -- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc

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