Re: [Groff] .UR man request

[Werner LEMBERG]

> The man page man(7) (January 2001, Linux) talks about Hypertext Link
> Macros .UR, .UE, .UN, being unavailable in groff -man.
> 
> They seem to have been taylored for the man2html utility.
> 
> Are there similar hyperlink constructions for plain groff?

`Plain groff'?  What do you mean?  Using those hypertext macros
unconditionally prevents man pages from being portable...

A possible solution is to have something like this in the header of a
particular man page:

  .ie \n(.g \{\
  .  mso www.tmac
  .
  .  de UN
  .    URL \\$1 \\$1
  ..
  .\}
  .el \{\
  .  de UN
  .    <do something>
  ..
  .\}

groff's .URL macro is much more powerful than .UN -- .UR/.UE looks
strange to me anyway.


    Werner