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From: stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Creating `man' pages with tbl eqn
Keywords: catman, nroff
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Date: 24 Oct 90 17:17:44 GMT
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In article <10541@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>, daveb@poa.NREL.ColoState.EDU (Dave Bigelow 491-5574) writes:
|> I have started a small documentation project which initially involves
|> placing some previously published troff documents (single pages up to
|> reports) into local `man' pages.  When I attempt to use the `catman'
|> utility however, equations and tables are not processed.  
|> [...]
|> Is there a patch available for the catman utility that comes with SUNOS4.1?
|> Has anyone solved this problem before?

I believe Sun has solved the problem for you already.  The man(7) page says:

  Conventions
     When formatting a manual page, man examines the  first  line
     to  determine  whether  it requires special processing.  For
     example a first line consisting of:
          '\" t

     indicates that the manual  page  must  be  run  through  the
     tbl(1) preprocessor.

Similarly, '\" et will invoke first eqn, then tbl.
This convention is honored by both man and catman.

-- 
Andreas Stolcke
International Computer Science Institute	stolcke@icsi.Berkeley.EDU
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