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From: soc@dr.uucp (Steinar O. Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: nroff
Summary: Have you tried tbl ?
Keywords: nroff, help
Message-ID: <649@dr.uucp>
Date: 2 Jun 90 10:19:26 GMT
References: <14@astph.UUCP> <492@vidiot.UUCP>
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In article <14@astph.UUCP> joe@astph.UUCP (Joe Broniszewski) writes:
>From time to time I get sources from the net and compile them on
>my machine.  Many times these sources send documemtation in
>a form that nroff can understand.  I try to print out these
>documents with the switchs -man, -ms, etc. that came with
>nroff, but they don't work on all documents.  I don't understand
>nroff well enough to figure out a solution to this problem.  Is
>there a standard filter to pass some of these manual pages through?
>Any help is greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

It might be that the documents have been written using tbl, pic or grap
macros. If the documents contains pic og grap macros, there is not very much 
you can do about it if you only have nroff. If the documents contains tbl 
macros (.TS/.TE), you could try formatting like this:

	tbl -TX document | nroff -mm/-me/-ms -Tyourterm