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Date:      Thu, 20 Jun 1996 23:59:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
To:        Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org>, FreeBSD ports <freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: dmake documents 
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.91.960620235550.7920F-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199606202147.OAA15651@seagull.rtd.com>

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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.


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