01-02-2002
I don't know the troff macro packages that well. But I reviewed my troff documentation to get a sense of the differences.
-ms
This was the first and most widely available macro package.
-mm
This was written by the Unix Support Group and was intended to be an official part of System V. It is much bigger and more powerful than the others. It is also harder to learn. I see that HP-UX has a mm command but SunOS does not. mm is a command to print documented formatted by the -mm macros.
-me
This was written at Berkeley. Its documentation says that it is for technical papers. (The documentation on the other macro packages indicate that they are more general purpose.) This package is much simpler and less powerful. Stuff written in -me will work well in troff or nroff.
So I guess that -ms is probably the best choice for a first package. But if you need very complex stuff, -mm may be best. And if you can settle for some limited capability or need to easily use nroff and troff then -me may be best.
It may be lame, but here is what I do: I find a document that is nicely formatted and I get the source code for it. Then I remove the author's text and put in my own.
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checknr
checknr(1) General Commands Manual checknr(1)
Name
checknr - check nroff/troff files
Syntax
checknr [-s] [-f] [-a.x1.y1.x2.y2. ... .xn.yn] [-c.x1.x2.x3... .xn] [file...]
Description
The command checks a list of or input files for certain kinds of errors involving mismatched opening and closing delimiters and unknown
commands. If no files are specified, checks the standard input. Delimiters checked are:
5 Font changes using fx ... fP.
Size changes using sx ... s0.
Macros that come in open ... close forms, for example, the .TS and .TE macros which must always come in pairs.
The command knows about the and macro packages.
The command is intended to be used on documents that are prepared with in mind, much the same as It expects a certain document writing
style for f and s commands, in that each fx must be terminated with fP and each sx must be terminated with s0. While it will work to
directly go into the next font or explicitly specify the original font or point size, and many existing documents actually do this, such a
practice will produce complaints from Since it is probably better to use the fP and s0 forms anyway, you should think of this as a con-
tribution to your document preparation style.
Options
-a Allows additional pairs of macros to be added to the list. This must be followed by groups of six characters, each group defining a
pair of macros. The six characters are a period, the first macro name, another period, and the second macro name. For example, to
define a pair .BS and .ES, use -a.BS.ES.
-c Defines commands otherwise complained about as undefined.
-f Ignores f font changes.
-s Ignores s size changes.
Restrictions
There is no way to define a 1 character macro name using -a.
Does not correctly recognize certain reasonable characters, such as conditionals.
Diagnostics
Complaints about unmatched delimiters.
Complaints about unrecognized commands.
Various complaints about the syntax of commands.
See Also
eqn(1), nroff(1), troff(1), ms(7), me(7)
checknr(1)