Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!mjbtn!root
From: root@mjbtn.MFEE.TN.US (Mark J. Bailey)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: NetNews 2.11.B Docs
Summary: I think you mean the *.mn files???
Message-ID: <340@mjbtn.MFEE.TN.US>
Date: 13 Oct 88 22:27:12 GMT
References: <13@raider.UUCP>
Organization: JobSoft Design & Development, Murfreesboro, TN
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In article <13@raider.UUCP>, root@raider.UUCP (Bob Reineri) writes:
> I am having some problems getting nroff to format the manual pages correctly. I
> am running Xenix SysVR2.2. Have used every macro package I have and still no
> luck. Am I doing something terribly ignorant ? 
> 
> The text all comes out in one blob, no page breaks, justified to both sides.
> 

Bob,

Don't you mean the *.mn files (ie, howto.mn, install.mn, etc.) instead of
the regular *.1 files?  I could format the *.1 files fine using:

nroff -man file.1

but when I tried (and on three DIFFERENT UNIX's) to format the files
that uses the 'mn' macros, I got blobbed up pages.  I used:

nroff -mmn howto.mn
   and even
nroff -mn howto.mn

and nothing worked.  Is there anyone out there that ever got those *.mn
files to format properly?  If so, could someone please format them into
a file (nroff bla bla bla > howto.fmtd, etc.) and mail them to me.

Thanks in advance,

Mark.



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