Hi, Sverre Slotte wrote: > The web-page http://troff.org/macros.html has (under the To Do > section) this interesting entry: > > "The -mpm Macro Package" B. W. Kernighan and C. J. Van Wyk. Describes > the -mpm macros, a version of -ms that does automatic page balancing.
It was used and acknowledged in the production of the excellent _The Practice of Programming_ by Kernighan and Pike. http://troff.org/pubs.html#tpop "This book was typeset (grap|pic|tbl|eqn|troff -mpm) in Times and Lucida San Typewriter by the authors." > A man-page of -mpm is available on > http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9_2nd_ed/6/mpm. I'm not sure the source is in modern Plan 9's, but Commander Pike did post it to comp.os.plan9 in the past. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.plan9/msg/cef975886f4502be http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.plan9/msg/3459b23689796052 Cheers, Ralph.