Re: [Groff] how not to number the cover page? and not to show page number on the front page?

[Anton Shepelev]

Keith Marshall:

> > Thanks,   I  missed  the  piece about hd*sect-pg.
> > My version is definitely better then.
>
> Except for one fairly important issue: you are  ad-
> vocating exposure of what *should* be a private in-
> terface, (according to naming convention),  and  is
> thus  *entirely* specific to groff's mm implementa-
> tion.  How will it then fare, if  anyone  tries  to
> format  your source with A. N. Other's troff imple-
> mentation?
>
> It seems quite astonishing that mm would not have a
> formally  documented  method  to achieve this, in a
> portable fashion, and without having to rely on un-
> documented internals.

Good point.

My  other suggestion -- to make mm respect *roff's -n
option, as any macro package is expected  to -- seems
nicer in this regard.

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