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From: nick@toro.UUCP (Nicholas Jacobs)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C News documentation written with -ms nroff macro
Message-ID: <736@toro.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 89 19:07:06 GMT
References: <1989Jul15.195651.5979@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> <1989Jul16.021612.13393@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: nick@toro.UUCP (Nicholas Jacobs)
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In article <1989Jul16.021612.13393@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1989Jul15.195651.5979@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) writes:
>>Where can I get the -ms macro for nroff?  ...

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>And all *that* being said, the next C News patch will include tmac.cn,
>a quick-and-dirty fake of enough of the -ms macros for the C News docs.
>We find the situation annoying ourselves, and the docs make so little
>use of the macro package that it only took an hour or two to build an
>adequate fake from scratch.
>-- 
>$10 million equals 18 PM       |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
>(Pentagon-Minutes). -Tom Neff  | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu

When I received my B News 2.11 tape from NCR, it contained a macro package
called mn. I realize that this Yet Another Macro Package to learn :-) (plus
it was written by different authors, etc.), but maybe its worthwhile to settle
on some standard (meaning not tied to anybody's release of Unix) set of macros
for USENET software releases. Of course maybe in Release 4, we'll get the
best of both worlds wrt troff (hah!).

Oddly enough, on our NCR 32/600's we have the ms macros and they're
pretty vanilla SysV boxes (or so I thought). BTW, I'm currently porting
C News onto the NCR Tower. If anyone has already done this please stop
me and send diffs...

Just a thought,

Nicholas Jacobs
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