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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Need information for using man and mm together
Message-ID: <6998@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 8 Jan 88 12:02:17 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3532@whuts.UUCP> jdw1@whuts.UUCP (WILLIAMS) writes:
>Has anyone written a shell script that utilizes the mm and man
>macros in the same document?

Some, maybe most, implementations of troff simply do not support
two -m options at the same time.  However, since the -m option is
just an abbreviation for a file name, you can explicitly name the
file(s) instead.  Usually, for example, -mm corresponds to
/usr/lib/tmac/tmac.m

Be aware that macro packages keep state information in various
troff number registers, and assume certain conventions, so two
concurrent macro packages could easily step on each other's toes.
I don't know if this is true of -mm and -man.