Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:58:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Carl Lowenstein <cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu>
Message-Id: <199812292358.PAA16791@mpl.ucsd.edu>
To: dave@fgh.geac.com.au, grog@lemis.com
Subject: Re: Converting Sixth Edition man pages
Cc: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au
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> From owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Tue Dec 29 15:07 PST 1998
> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 09:48:10 +1100 (EST)
> From: Dave Horsfall <dave@fgh.geac.com.au>
> X-Sender: dave@fgh
> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
> cc: Unix Heritage Society <pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au>
> 
> On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> > In fact, I'm not sure that just viewing them *would* be easier.  From
> > observation, the markup isn't too different from the -an macros.  A
> > lot of the macros seem to be the same, just in a different case.  But
> > there are enough differences that I wouldn't want to tackle it right
> > now.
> 
> Do you have thee 6th Edition documentation to tell you what the macros
> do?  I have them somewhere...
> 
> -- 

A quick check around some computers that I have on-line shows two sets
of v6 man macros, one for nroff and one for troff.  This is on a NeXT
running NeXTstep 3.3.  But I suspect that these same macros are
available on anything with a BSD 4.3 flavor.

/usr/lib/tmac/tmac.an6n
/usr/lib/tmac/tmac.an6t

About 200 lines total between them.

With the right macros, [ntg]roff should be able to do everything else.

    carl

        carl lowenstein         marine physical lab     u.c. san diego
                                                  clowenstein@ucsd.edu