(Ted Harding) wrote: > On 16-Sep-07 22:15:55, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >>>> I don't think classic troff mm's ":p" has ever been in groff's mm, >>>> which has used "ft*nr" as long as I've known it (about 1990)! >>> The obvious "solution" to that "problem" is to add: >>> >>> .als :p ft*nr >>> >>> to the mm macros like is done for other obscure number registers. >> In case this fixes the problem I'll apply this change to the source >> file. Luke, can you verify it?
I tried that, fully expecting it to work - but it didn't! But changing each new chapter to set ft*nr to 0 worked. Thanks for telling me what the groff number register for footnotes was! For your reference, feel free to play with the attached test file. >> Werner > > I would like to suggest that, before anything is done generally > in groff, we should get to the bottom of where this ":p" is > coming from. It's a genuine troff mm-ism. E.g. we found out about it from the book by Narain Gehani (of AT&T) "Document Formatting and Typesetting on the UNIX System", ISBN 0 -9615336-0-9 (highly recommended, BTW). > 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. Not that this disproves its existence, since > a lot of troff documentation (indeed like a lot of groff's) > doe not refer much to "internal registers"; nor have I got > access to much documentation! > > Perhaps ":p" is specific to a particular version of troff, > as used by Luke's wife for her thesis. If it's not generic, > then I doubt we should add too many such "special patches" > to groff. I hope the above reference is helpful. > So let's wait for Luke to tell us more detail! In particular, > which "make" of troff, what year, version of mm macros? It took quite a few years for my wife to finish the thesis. I think she started using troff of one form or another between 1984-1988. I do have a copy of one of the mmt files around, so I can tell you one of them at least was: '''\" UNIX Memorandum Macros - 16.29 of 2/27/83 '''\" TROFF Version @(#)mmt.src 16.29 Oh, I see I have a few versions lying around: ==> /home/stella/Archives/thesis/mm/mmt <== '''\" UNIX Memorandum Macros - 16.49 of 2/27/86 '''\" TROFF Version @(#)mmt.src 16.49 '''\"#ident "@(#)macros:mmt.src 16.49" ==> /home/stella/Archives/thesis/mmt.new <== '''\" UNIX Memorandum Macros - 16.49 of 4/17/86 '''\" TROFF Version @(#)mmt.src 16.49 '\"#ident "@(#)macros:mmt.src 16.49" ==> /home/stella/Archives/thesis/mmt.old <== '''\" UNIX Memorandum Macros - 16.29 of 2/27/83 '''\" TROFF Version @(#)mmt.src 16.29 .nr:a 0 1 ==> /home/local/lib-posh/macros/mmt <== '''\" 9442 Memorandum Macros - 15.110 of 5/6/80 '''\" TROFF Version @(#) mmt.src.src 1.1 87/09/03 .nr:a 0 1 It worked in all of them, and we used BSD systems and System V unix. They all have the same (only two) references to ":p": .nr:p 0 1 and in the (long) definition of "H": .if\\n(:C .nr :p 0 1 \} Thanks for the help, it's much appreciated! HTH, luke > Best wishes to all, > Ted. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 > Date: 17-Sep-07 Time: 00:25:15 > ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ > >
'\" Try this: .als :p ft*nr '\" Didn't work. .P Some text .P Test footnote number resetting. First, this should be number 1\*F .FS I hope this is 1. .FE So this should be number 2\*F .FS I hope this is two. .FE .P So let's reset the footnote number register to 0 and make a fresh footnote. .nr :p 0 '\" try this: .nr ft*nr 0 1 '\" Yep, that works. .P Okay, this footnote should also be number 1\*F .FS Is it? It isn't, in my wife's thesis when we do this. .FE
