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[Groff] Feature enhancements to man (an-old)


From: Larry Kollar
Subject: [Groff] Feature enhancements to man (an-old)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 18:43:48 -0500

Some very simple hacking to the an-old.tmac file provides
a man package that:

  - allows complete control of headers and footers
  - allows control of the heading font
  - is completely transparent otherwise

Rationale: lots of gadgets have embedded CLIs whose
documentation looks a lot like a manpage, but need
different headers, footers, and so on. With some
judicious tweaks in man.local, you can use -man for
those documents while not changing anything for
regular manpages.

Bonus: while poking through an-old.tmac, I came
across a couple of undocumented macros and the
trove of stuff in man.ultrix. The attached tarball also
patches groff_man.man to document the .AT and .UC
macros and groff.texinfo to document them and the
Ultrix stuff. I don't have texinfo on this machine, so
there's undoubtedly a couple of problems with that
patch, but I've tested the others. Patches are against
yesterday's CVS.

Attachment: manpatch.tar.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data



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