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From: shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Need information for using man and mm together
Message-ID: <670002@hpclscu.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Jan 88 02:28:14 GMT
References: <3532@whuts.UUCP>
Organization: HP ITG/ISO Computer Language Lab
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/ hpclscu:comp.unix.wizards / gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) /  4:02 am  Jan  8, 1988 /
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?

>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.

I know for a fact that this is true, for example of -ms (which is a pretty
inoffensive package) and -mm, because -mm uses a horrid number of internal
macros, diversions, traps, and state variables (which are implemented as 
macros..). It just blows away any other package that is combined with it. 

Your best ticket is to define (if you have the stomach to create troff macros)
extensions to the -man package to perform fancy stuff like bullets, lists, etc
(if that's what you are after).

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