Walter Harms wrote, quoting Clarke Echols: >> ABSOLUTELY NO LINES, other than genuine troff/groff comment lines >> should appear in a man page file before the .TH line. ... > > iff i remember correctly you may use '\"tep (t for tbl e for > eqn p for pic etc) in the first line to invoke the various > precompilers.
You may, although IIRC, there should be a space, as in `'\" tep'. But that doesn't violate Clarke's dictum: the initial `'\"' makes it a genuine troff/groff comment line; it defines no content. BTW, I think you mean `preprocessors', not `precompilers'. Regards, Keith. _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
