Re: Re: [Groff] need advice on choosing a macro

[kollar]

> > > How does one get -ms to not have a cover page or
> > > document header?
> > 
> > Don't use cover page macros and you won't get a
> > cover page. :-)
> 
> So the GNU version of -ms doesn't barf when no cover
> page macros are invoked? Nice. This probably should be
> documented, since readers of documentation for UNIX
> -ms might not know otherwise.

It's documented. See groff_ms(7) for groff versions 1.18 and later:

   The simplest documents can begin with a paragraph macro
   and consist of text separated by paragraph macros or
   even blank lines.

If you have an earlier version of groff, you ought to upgrade just to get the 
improved ms manpage. ;-)

    Larry