Re: [Groff] How do the calls go exactly?

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Am I correct into assuming, from what I could glance from the
> documentation and the sources, that nroff calls the tmac.doc file
> [the -m argument passed to nroff]?

nroff is identical to

  groff -m tty-char -T<device> <options> <file>

so yes, the -m argument is used.

> If so, which file documents all the macros used in tmac.doc, so that
> I can grok the rest of it, because my first few forays into this
> didn't yield much.

groff_mdoc.man and groff_mdoc.samples.man -- I haven't checked these
files at all but I know that there are serious problems.  For example,
groff_mdoc.samples.man fails with dvi output; just do

  groff -ww -Tdvi -mdoc groff_mdoc.samples.man > groff_mdoc.samples.dvi

and read the last warning message:

  automatically ending diversion `eB' on exit

The last 8 pages are missing!


    Werner