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From: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce)
Subject: Re: How are manual pages formatted?
Message-ID: <1990Feb1.163045.14129@gumby.cc.wmich.edu>
Organization: Western Michigan University
References: <1990Jan31.205915.4709@gumby.cc.wmich.edu> <1637@atha.AthabascaU.CA>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 90 16:30:45 GMT

In article <1637@atha.AthabascaU.CA> lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
>The UCB version of man recognizes some escapes in the ?roff source
>that tell man(1) to invoke various preprocessors. The Ultrix man
> [...]
>It sure would be nice if Ultrix picked up the MANPATH feature.)

Amen to that.

>The funny part of this is, although "man 7 man" doesn't document
>this feature under Ultrix, the Ultrix man(7) man page expects tbl
>to be invoked ahead of nroff when formatting it :-)
 
Actually, this is the first manual page that I found that wouldn't format
correctly with just nroff -man.  I found a few others that wouldn't format
correctly, too.  Thanks to Bill Lynch (lynch@umunhum.stanford.edu) for
telling me that

	tbl <file> | nroff -h -man - | col

is what he uses.  I tried it on the man pages that wouldn't format correctly
with just nroff -man and they came out fine.
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