Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jmason
From: jmason@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Jamie Mason)
Subject: Nroff requests list
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.022829.16619@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Keywords: nroff troff requests reference list
Organization: University of Toronto Computer Science Undergraduate Student
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 1991 02:28:29 GMT


     Does anyone have a complete list, in  a  file,  of  the
[nt]roff  requests.  The man pages list all the macros in MS
and ME, but I need a list of the built-in requests.  My  man
pages do not provide this list.

     Currently, I have to look it up  in  a  *PAPER*  *BOOK*
that I have to borrow from a *LIBRARY*!  I would really much
rather search a text file with good ol' egrep.  :-)

     Also, is there a more appropriate group for  discussing
*roff?   It  seems to me that, yes, it *IS* a Unix question,
but there must be a specialised group which discusses  these
utilities,  like  there  is  a comp.editors fro editors, and
comp.mail for mailers, and so forth.

     Thanks in advance.

Jamie  ...  "Who was that Masked Interrupt?"
Written On  Wednesday, February 27, 1991  at  09:25:04pm EST