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Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X
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Ken Hornstein |
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Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X |
Date: |
Mon, 03 Apr 2023 14:40:25 -0400 |
>The status quo is fine. It doesn't require understanding all of troff.
>Just man(7) plus the odd bit here and there.
Sigh. The "odd bit" unfortunately, for me, requires a lot of knowledge
that seems to take some serious roff-fu.
Let's take the example you gave where the first line for a man
page that uses tbl should contain:
'\" t
So, my question is ... what does this mean? I understand that \" is
a comment, but I'm confused about the leading single quote. As a random
note, this string is rather hard to search for. Also, I don't really
understand how single quotes are used in roff, I guess; all of the
documentation seems to assume you already know this. And it's this
way for me for EVERY SINGLE BIT of "odd bit"; there's a huge pile of
knowledge that is assumed you know. It's not that I'm afraid of digging
into hours-long rat holes; I write programs using OpenSSL, after all.
It's just a lot to deal with when I am just trying to format a nice
table. And I do it so infrequently that I have to re-learn it all
every time I want to edit a man page.
(I did play around with tbl, and it seems like that is actually very
easy so I am thinking that Anthony is is right and we should just switch
to that).
--Ken
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, (continued)
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Greg Minshall, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Anthony J. Bentley, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Ralph Corderoy, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Ken Hornstein, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Ralph Corderoy, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Ken Hornstein, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Ralph Corderoy, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Anthony J. Bentley, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X,
Ken Hornstein <=
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, doug dougwellington . com, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Ken Hornstein, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Michael Richardson, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Ken Hornstein, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, George Michaelson, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Ken Hornstein, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, George Michaelson, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2023/04/03
- Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X, George Michaelson, 2023/04/03