Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnewsl!npn From: npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: ms macro of DWB2.0 Summary: -ms is still alive Message-ID: <1991Apr30.192448.11539@cbnewsl.att.com> Date: 30 Apr 91 19:24:48 GMT References: <1991Apr30.130418.8856@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 19 In article <1991Apr30.130418.8856@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>, pstowne@zargon.lerc.nasa.gov (Charlie Towne) writes: > In article <1991Apr29.205801.4952@cbnewsl.att.com> npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson) writes: > > > >The -ms macros, used mostly by Bell Labs Research and > >Universities, are distributed with DWB 3.1. > > I'm a little confused. In "UNIX Text Processing" by Dougherty & O'Reilly, > it says that the ms macros are "no longer officially supported by AT&T." > That's the main reason I started using mm. Is this no longer true? Was > it ever? > Undoubtedly, AT&T misled you. Since DWB 2.0 was generally unsupported, -ms was too :-). Not only is it alive-- the new page makeup macros are based on it. -mm is generally more feature-rich, but more complex and weighty as a result. Inside AT&T far more people use -mm than -ms, but it's your choice.