From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 20 20:59:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA14301 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 20:59:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from distortion.eng.umd.edu (distortion.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA14277; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 20:59:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from skipper.eng.umd.edu (skipper.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.208]) by distortion.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA18660; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 23:59:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by skipper.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA08008; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 23:59:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 23:59:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@skipper.eng.umd.edu To: Don Yuniskis cc: FreeBSD hackers , FreeBSD ports Subject: Re: dmake documents In-Reply-To: <199606202147.OAA15651@seagull.rtd.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, Don Yuniskis wrote: > I was playing with the port of dmake recently. I tried to install > the troff source for the man page -- which is not installed in the normal > package -- and seem to have a problem with one of the macros. > Specifically, the definition of the ``Ii'' macro seems to invoke the > ``}N'' macro in a trap (e.g., ".it 1 }N"). Presumably, this ends the > diversion in effect and generates the output. But, I can't find a macro > ``}N'' anywhere in the man page. Nor is it part of my tmac.* stuff. > Is this an artifact of some *other* set of macros (i.e. from a > different vendor)? Does anyone have the text of said macro? Or, > should I just roll my own and hope for the best?? > Thanks, > --don > I made it work, sort of, by inserting a .di 2 lines further down in the macro, but it still rankles, because it's being used to highlight a flag value, when there is already a correct macro to use in that situation, in the mdoc stuff. I didn't get it to format just right, IMO, it's not like I would expect it to be, but like I said, it's the wrong approach to begin with. Now I've figured it out (a divert request with a missing end of diversion) I don't think I'm gonna volunteer to fix a huge man page. Too much to do, you understand, I guess. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------