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- From: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: man macro manual?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.101314.3759@ericsson.se>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 10:13:14 GMT
- References: <Bu6z2u.3tq@mtholyoke.edu>
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- Reply-To: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
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- In article <Bu6z2u.3tq@mtholyoke.edu>, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
- |> Where can I find a manual for the tmac.an macros? Does it exist or
- |> is being able to figure them out a requirement for being qualified
- |> to write man pages?
-
- Try:
- eos6c02 ~ 43 > man 7 man
-
- MAN(7) ENVIRONMENTS, TABLES, AND TROFF MACROS MAN(7)
-
- NAME
- man - macros to format Reference Manual pages
-
- SYNOPSIS
- nroff -man filename...
-
- troff -man filename...
-
- DESCRIPTION
- These macros are used to lay out the reference pages in this
- manual. Note: if filename contains format input for a
- preprocessor, the commands shown above must be piped through
- the appropriate preprocessor. This is handled automatically
- by man(1). See Conventions.
-
-
- --
-
- Michael Salmon
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