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From: jbw%bucsf.BU.EDU@bu-cs.bu.edu (Joe Wells)
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Subject: {n,pt}roff with mm on suns
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Date: 6 May 89 16:14:53 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 272, message 19 of 19

In Sun-Spots-Digest: vol. 7, no. 239, msg. 21 of 21, S. Cowles writes:

   i would like very much to use memorandum macros with nroff and/or ptroff
   on a sun 4.  unfortunately, when i do, i get unusable page numbers.  the
   page numbers come out with about 102 leading zero's in spite of specifying
   .af P 1 before any page numbers are printed.  the versions of mm that i
   have been trying are 10.108 and 11.47.  i've noticed that the number
   register P has a size of 3 (using the .pm call).

{n,pt,ps}roff under SunOS (some versions?) does not support the "\g"
interpolation command.  The "\g" command is used by the "mm" macro package
in several places.  I can tell you how to modify your copy of the "mmt"
file so that it works.

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