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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.
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.TH SPELL 1
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.SH NAME
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spell, sprog \- find spelling errors
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B spell
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[
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.I options
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]
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\&...
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[
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.I file
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]
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\&...
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.PP
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.B sprog
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[
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.I options
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]
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[
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.B -f
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.I file
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]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.I Spell
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looks up words from the named
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.I files
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(standard input default)
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in a spelling list and places
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possible misspellings\(emwords
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not sanctioned there\(emon the standard output.
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.PP
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.I Spell
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ignores constructs of
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.MR troff 1
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and its standard preprocessors.
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It understands these options:
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.TP
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.B -b
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Check British spelling.
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.TP
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.B -v
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Print all words not literally in the spelling list, with
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derivations.
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.TP
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.B -x
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Print, marked with
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.LR = ,
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every stem as it is looked up in the spelling list,
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along with its affix classes.
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.PP
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As a matter of policy,
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.I spell
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does not admit multiple spellings of the same word.
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Variants that follow general rules are preferred
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over those that don't, even when the unruly spelling is
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more common.
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Thus, in American usage, `modelled', `sizeable', and `judgment' are
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rejected in favor of `modeled', `sizable', and `judgement'.
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Agglutinated variants are shunned: `crewmember' and `backyard'
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cede to `crew member' and `back yard' (noun) or `back-yard'
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(adjective).
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.SH FILES
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.TP
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.B \*9/lib/amspell
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American spelling list
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.TP
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.B \*9/lib/brspell
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British spelling list
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.TP
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.B \*9/bin/sprog
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The actual spelling checker.
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It expects one word per line on standard input,
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and takes the same arguments as
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.IR spell .
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.SH SOURCE
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.TF \*9/src/cmd/spell
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.TP
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.B \*9/bin/spell
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the script
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.TP
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.B \*9/src/cmd/spell
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source for
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.I sprog
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.MR deroff 1
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.SH BUGS
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The heuristics of
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.MR deroff 1
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used to excise formatting information are imperfect.
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.PP
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The spelling list's coverage is uneven;
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in particular biology, medicine, and chemistry, and
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perforce proper names,
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not to mention languages other than English,
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are covered very lightly.
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