Re: [Groff] Choosing a portability target

[Eric S. Raymond]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
> 
> > HOWEVER, if groff can be compiled and run on HP-UX, groff-oriented
> > man pages will also need to be installed in the usual directories on
> > HP-UX systems, and HP-UX users will expect to be able to run the man
> > command on those pages.
> 
> If groff finds another troff package already installed on the system,
> it renames itself to gtroff, geqn, gtbl, etc.; macros have to be
> called as `-mgms', `-mgan', and `-mgmm'.

If groff is going to go to this much trouble, maybe we should drop 
back to two-character macros and \*( only in the groff pages.  Otherwise
aren't they going to break?  Or does .mso have magic behavior that
prevents this?
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>