Peter Jeremy wrote:
On Fri, 2005-Apr-29 00:55:41 +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:Ever a sucker for punishment, I downloaded 4.3bsd nroff and pretty much it seems to work*. This is on 4.11. The tmac.an macros load tmac.doc. There may be some new macros defined since the days of 4.3 but I doubt anything critical has changed.
Since no-one had a sensible answer, why not try a version of original nroff from say 4.3BSD. Hunting around, I found this: http://www.tuhs.org/. Hopefully the most used macros will have stayed the same.
Actually, they haven't. The FreeBSD man pages are written using mdoc(7),
not man(7). The current version of mdoc(7) in FreeBSD needs long names -
which are supported by ditroff and groff but not the older nroff.
Peter, did you mean that the macro definition file uses long definitions? If so, I don't think that matters since I proposed using the original tman.an/tmac.doc macros which would obviously be compatible. Just that new man pages might use a macro which wasn't defined in those old definitions files.
A tar.gz is a massive 124K (source only) so, Emanuel, if you want to try it I can mail it to you. (It was you asked the original question, wasn't it?)
* I have formatted a massive 3 random manual pages, and got one bad definition, but the page viewed fine.
If anyone cares to repeat the feat, I used the 4.3BSD-Reno src. I needed src.tar.gz and usr.tar.gz form which I extracted usr.bin/roff, libdata/term/tablpr, libdata/term and share/tmac. I put the whole thing under /usr/local/43bsd, fixed a couple pathname.h files and wrote the stupidest shell script because Makefiles created umpteen problems. When it all compiles in 5 seconds, makefiles are somewhat moot :-). In usr.bin/roff/nroff
cc -c -DNROFF -DVMUNIX -I../common_source *.c cd ../common_source cc -c -DNROFF -DVMUNIX -I. *.c cd ../nroff cc -o nroff *.o ../common_source/*.o -lcompat
And fixed the hardwired pathnames in tmac.an.
The list of 4BSD archive sites is at http://www.tuhs.org/archive_sites.html and I used the York/UK one.
--Alex
PS I have redirected back to questions where this thread started. Doesn't seem that relevant to current.
_______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
