(Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't have access to macro files for other troffs at the > moment, but I've browsed around in such documentation as > I can find, without seeing a reference to a number register > ":p" in mm.
<http://heirloom.cvs.sourceforge.net/heirloom/heirloom-doctools/troff/troff.d/tmac.d/mmt?revision=1.7&view=markup> This is a nearly unaltered variant of the original -mm. However, it does not include comments since there was a tool to strip them from installed macro files, and Sun has provided the installed variant only (no idea if they even have the full source code at all). As far as I know, Sun is the only company which has made the original -mm macros available as Open Source. However, -mm macros including comments and the original paper about them ("Memorandum Macros" by Smith and Mashey) had been available from SCO with System III under more restrictive conditions until a few years ago. From the comments, one learns that :p is the footnote number within the text. It is used but not documented in the paper. > So let's wait for Luke to tell us more detail! In particular, > which "make" of troff, what year, version of mm macros? All variants of the original -mm which I have seen so far have been very similar. It is likely that they all use the :p register in the same way. Gunnar
