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Re: [Groff] What does .\" NS mean in the unstripped tmac files?
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Ralph Corderoy |
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Re: [Groff] What does .\" NS mean in the unstripped tmac files? |
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Sat, 25 Feb 2017 14:14:17 +0000 |
Hi John,
Werner wrote:
> > .\" NS Dd user macro (not parsed, not callable)
>
> I no longer know, sorry. It marks documentation lines, that's for
> sure.
They appeared in a48ab7b6db26b1d98f77f59f22896fe02a700c40,
Author: James Clark <address@hidden>
Date: Wed Mar 18 04:29:18 1992 -0500
groff before CVS: release 1.05
and part of CHANGES there says
The -mdoc macros have been upgraded to the version in the second
Berkeley networking release. This version is not completely
compatible with earlier versions; the old version is still available
as -mdoc.old.
So you may find a hint in an old BSD that can code to process them.
Cheers, Ralph.