Aharon Robbins said: > The Tenth Edition manual doesn't cover MM because (I believe) the people > at Bell Labs Research didn't use MM; they used MS.
Which I use most of the time, but for some sets of documents, I use mm. > Back in the days before Calderra bloodied the name of SCO, when SCO > first made available "Personal Unix Licenses", among the things included > was System III. The System III sources were available via The Unix > Historical Society (www.tuhs.org) to those who sent in a copy of the > license. I paid a whopping $100 for such a license and have the System > III sources, which includes the document cited below. > > I was able to make good use of it circa 1999 for the third edition of > O'Reilly's "Unix In A Nutshell" where I included full documentation of > the MM macros. So, if you can find a copy of that book, you'll have > reasonable documentation. That is what I printed out, it is not complete though (e.g. it doesn't document the macros for letters) and it is not in every one's favourite man(6). > The fourth edition dropped most of the troff coverage; I was able to > convince the editor to let me put in enough to make it possible for > people to write man pages. :-( One Of These Days I'd like to take the > older material and make a "shortcut" called "Troff In A Nutshell" but > I don't know when I'll find the time. Good for you. :) > I don't know what the legal status is of System III and thus of this > document. Maybe someone can arrange for a copy of the document to "fall > off a truck" somewhere .... Sigh. > > HTH, > > Arnold > > P.S. Would anyone care to volunteer as to the legal status of a PDF > version of the document? Caldera released 32-bit 32 UNIX and 16 bit UNIX Versions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 under the four clause BSD license, see contrib/forsyth/refer.tgz. >> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:33:58 -0600 (CST) >> From: Benn Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: [9fans] mm macro documentation >> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <[email protected]> >> >> The Tenth Edition manual doesn't have mm (in the second volume at least) >> and the troff manual only helps if one wants to make a new manual page >> (my >> start at one is at contrib/btdn/man/6/mm) >> >> To be more concrete, it would be nice to either have >> "MM - Memorandum Macros. D. W. Smith, J. R. Mashey, E. C. Pariser, and >> N. >> W. Smith, AT&T Bell Laboratories, June 1980." or mm(6). I suppose >> <http://inetsd01.boulder.ibm.com/pseries/hu_HU/cmds/aixcmds5/troff.htm> >> will do for now... >> >> I have started an index file of the various things in /sys/lib/tmac at >> contrib/btdn/doc/tmac -- if you have an account you can update it >> yourself, or you can email me corrections. Some of the things can >> probably >> be deleted, at least from the view of someone outside of Bell Labs. No >> offence to Arun N. Netravali, but are (complet cover)^.1127 needed? >> tmac.org is just a .so to /usr/lib/macros/org. >> >> And in case no one has noticed, the sources website doesn't work. >> -- >> Benn Newman > -- Benn Newman
