[TUHS] Who used *ROFF?

Dan Cross crossd at gmail.com
Wed May 16 00:37:53 AEST 2018


On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Nemo <cym224 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14/05/2018, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote (in part):
> > I had a boss once who demanded that we learn -mm; for some reason I
still
> > preferred -ms, as it somehow seemed more "natural", and I still use it
to
> > this day (well, when I'm not using the Mac, that is).
>
> Why not? The Mac has it: /usr/share/groff/1.19.2/tmac/s.tmac

I have some vague distant memory of a commercial Unix variant that came
with troff and the -mm macros, but without -ms. I can't remember which it
was (or if I'm just imagining things). Anyone have any ideas?

        - Dan C.
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