> .xx "" "yppoll -" "ask version of NIS map from NIS server" "" "yppoll(8)" > > (By the way, I don't understand why the above is split this way.)
You should say `info ptx' to get the details:
`-O'
`--format=roff'
Choose an output format suitable for `nroff' or `troff'
processing. Each output line will look like:
.xx "TAIL" "BEFORE" "KEYWORD_AND_AFTER" "HEAD" "REF"
so it will be possible to write a `.xx' roff macro to take care of
the output typesetting. This is the default output format when GNU
extensions are disabled. Option `-M' can be used to change `xx'
to another macro name.
In this output format, each non-graphical character, like newline
and tab, is merely changed to exactly one space, with no special
attempt to compress consecutive spaces. Each quote character: `"'
is doubled so it will be correctly processed by `nroff' or `troff'.
> $ groff -ms index.head J.permutted.2 > J.ps
It's clear now why you don't get any output. First, the ptx output
uses `.xx', not `.XX'. Second, even if you used `.XX', you wouldn't
get any output because .XX from index.head doesn't take any arguments.
What you need is a proper implementation of .xx: If you search for a
`tmac.ptx', you'll find possible implementations.
Attached is a version suitable for groff (with long register names).
Note that there are (similar to the original) some ^G characters in it.
You should say e.g.
...
.so ptx.tmac
.so J.permutted.2
in your document.
Werner
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