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From: pls@sortac.UUCP (Pat Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Need information for using man and mm together
Message-ID: <234@sortac.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 88 13:29:21 GMT
References: <3532@whuts.UUCP> <2721@killer.UUCP>
Reply-To: pls@sortac.UUCP (Pat Sullivan)
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In article <2721@killer.UUCP> wnp@killer.UUCP (Wolf Paul) writes:
>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?  ...
I replied to this in att.unix, then saw the same request and several replies
but no answerts here ... I'm reposting my followup below in case anyone
who's interested missed the reply there.

>What is the purpose or application for this effort, by the way?
We use it mainly for things like lists on manual pages.

This reply addresses straight DWB2.0; if you're using something different,
your solution will probably be similar, but not exactly the same.

The real problem is that ``man'' and ``mm'' use the same internal macro and
register names for different things.  
The source files for the macros are under /usr/src/cmd/text/macros.d: an.src
is for man, mmt.src is for mm with troff, and mmn.src is for mm with nroff.
We edited an.src to use only names that were not used by mmn.src or mmt.src
for its internal stuff.

The following substitutions worked for us:
	CHANGE	TO
	------	--
	)E	)e
	)I	)H
	)L	)c
	)M	)d
	)R	)P
	)p	)g
	)s	)i
	)t	)j
	:U	:K
	:m	:O
	}f	}s

We occasionally have problems when we do *NOT* use the ``-rs1'' argument
for reduced size pages; I can't recall a failure that was not due to bad
input when ``-rs1'' *WAS* specified.  Typical command line:

	troff -Tlj -man -mm -rs1 | dlj | lp

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