5 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Dmitri Vereshchagin
10564b1175 tmac/tmac.an: define .MR in a groff compatible way
groff 1.23.0 added .MR to its -man macro package.  The NEWS file states
that the inclusion of the macro "was prompted by its introduction to
Plan 9 from User Space's troff in August 2020."  From d32deab it seems
that the name for Plan 9 from User Space's implementation was suggested
by groff maintainer G. Brandon Robinson.

Not sure if the intention was to make these definitions compatible, but
it would be nice if they were.

Currently, Plan 9 from User Space's .MR expects its second argument to
be parenthesized.  groff's .MR does not.  This results in extra
parentheses appearing in manual references when viewing Plan 9 from User
Space's manual pages on a system using groff.
2025-07-27 09:58:50 -04:00
Russ Cox
d32deab17b tmac: rename IM (italic manual) to MR (manual reference)
Suggested by G. Brandon Robinson.
2020-08-15 20:09:40 -04:00
Russ Cox
977b25a76a tmac: introduce real manual reference macro instead of overloading IR
The overloading of IR emits magic \X'...' sequences that turn into HTML manual links.
But not all such IR invocations should be manual links;
those had to be written to avoid the IR macro before.
Worse, the \X'...' ending the IR causes troff to emit only a single space after a period.

Defining a new IM macro for manual references fixes both problems.

Fixes #441.
2020-08-13 23:43:43 -04:00
Russ Cox
b546bd6e72 man: various cleanup
Change-Id: I9130e7d10ae42e894923097a7c97da802eb0d8c3
Reviewed-on: https://plan9port-review.googlesource.com/2962
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
2017-07-16 02:52:27 +00:00
Russ Cox
3b842319ce tapefs(4): add man page 2008-06-14 13:40:34 -04:00