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Article #1987Re: Creating `man' pages with tbl eqn
From: Andreas Stolcke
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 1990 17:17
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 1990 17:17
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In article <10541@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>, daveb@poa.NREL.ColoState.EDU (Dave Bigelow 491-5574) writes:
|> I have started a small documentation project which initially involves
|> placing some previously published troff documents (single pages up to
|> reports) into local `man' pages. When I attempt to use the `catman'
|> utility however, equations and tables are not processed.
|> [...]
|> Is there a patch available for the catman utility that comes with SUNOS4.1?
|> Has anyone solved this problem before?
I believe Sun has solved the problem for you already. The man(7) page says:
Conventions
When formatting a manual page, man examines the first line
to determine whether it requires special processing. For
example a first line consisting of:
'\" t
indicates that the manual page must be run through the
tbl(1) preprocessor.
Similarly, '\" et will invoke first eqn, then tbl.
This convention is honored by both man and catman.
--
Andreas Stolcke
International Computer Science Institute stolcke@icsi.Berkeley.EDU
1957 Center St., Suite 600, Berkeley, CA 94704 (415) 642-4274 ext. 126
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