> Can someone please point me to documentation or share examples for
> defining the mdoc headers/footers?
I'm not aware of this being documented specially. Patches to
groff_mdoc are highly welcomed. [On the other hand, what you want to
achieve is probably not how it should behave by default.] Note that
this manual page currently confuses `headers' with `headings'.
> 1) I don't want the top middle header to not show anything if it is
> section 8.
This sentence looks funny. I suppose you mean
I want the top middle header to not show anything if it is
section 8.
> So I edited /usr/share/tmac/mdoc.local to add (set to nothing):
>
> .ds volume-ds-8
> .ds volume-ds-SMM
>
> and changed to set to nothing:
>
> .ds volume-operating-system
This is OK.
> I am concerned that changing the volume-ds-8 and
> volume-operating-system may change the content of my manpages too.
> Can anyone confirm these are for header only or not?
It affects only the header.
> But I now see another problem as my architecture is shown like
> "/alpha" (before it would be prefixed by operating system). So I
> may re-enable volume-operating-system setting. Any thoughts on
> this?
You might want to completely redefine the `doc-header' function (which
is just called `header' for the installed macros); then you can fix
the problems specific to section 8.
> 2) I want the bottom left footer to not show the operating system
> and version.
>
> So I edited same /usr/share/tmac/mdoc.local to set to nothing:
>
> .ds default-operating-system
OK.
> I am concerned that changing default-operating-system might change
> my content too and not just my left footer. Is that for the footer
> only?
Yes.
> 3) And I don't want the manual page name repeated on both the left
> and right sides of top header. Only on right side is fine for me.
>
> I am not sure how to solve that. Any ideas?
Redefine `doc-footer' and `doc-end-macro' (`footer' and `end-macro',
resp.).
Werner
