[TUHS] Reconstructed and newly set UNIX Manual

Angelo Papenhoff aap at papnet.eu
Sat Oct 27 22:28:34 AEST 2018


On 27/10/18, Doug McIlroy wrote:
>  > Now it could be that v7 troff is perfectly capable of generating the
> > manual just like older troff would have.
> 
> On taking over editorship for v7, I added some macros to the -man
> package. I don't specifically recall making any incompatible
> changes. If there were any, they'd most likely show up in
> the title and synopsis and should be fixable by a minor tweak
> to -man. I'm quite confident that there would be no problems
> with troff proper.

I didn't mean the macros. They are not problematic at all.
It's the idea how much a point is compared to an inch that has
changed over time i think.

aap



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