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- The patches to Fmtr achieve the following:
-
- (1) The few mm macros that switch to nofill mode are now
- recognized. I am not an mm user, but from the manual
- this should work.
-
- (2) For both mm and me display macros, Fmtr will now look
- to see if the display is in filled mode, as with:
- .(l F (me)
- and
- .DS F (mm)
-
- (3) All material between preprocessor statements (e. g.
- between .TS and .TE) is in nofill mode, as is all
- material within displays that are nofill. Requests
- that return to fill mode are ignored if they occur
- within a display or preprocessor material.
-
- (4) A -b flag has been added to begin each sentence on a
- new line, as recommended by some books. I feel that
- this defeats the whole idea of having neatly formatted
- text to edit, but then editing is a very personal
- matter.
-
- As noted at the end of the manual page, the emphasis
- has been on making sure that text should not be accidentally
- filled. When in doubt, Fmtr leaves the text as it found it.
- The real formatter will make the correct decisions at formatting
- time.
-
- Remember also that Fmtr is not a roff emulator. It
- knows nothing about environments, or indeed about the inner
- workings of the macros that it recognizes. If you have
- large amounts of unfilled text in sophisticated macros of
- your own, carefully examine the output of Fmtr before
- discarding the original.
-