Anton Shepelev wrote, On 01/26/2012 02:53 PM:
I don't have access to any other implementation of troff than groff, but I have consulted "The Docu- menter's Workbench", and it seems that groff's mm signature macros have incompatibilities more serious than the omission of the title, and some errors too. For example, it prints the AU attributes only before the last author's name, repeating (due to a typo in the macro) his initials as many times as there are authors, instead of listing those of each author... Would you please send me the -Tascii and -Tps output generated from the attached source file so that I could see what the result should look like? Anton
AntonTo run this test I needed to modify sign.mm to place the ".MT 5" after the other directives. I haven't checked the original DWB documentation, but in the Gehani book "Document Formatting and Typesetting on the Unix system" this order is documented. With the MT earlier troff gets into an infinite "brk" loop trying to allocate memory.
I've attached the ascii and postscript output. It gets the multiple authors and author titles right, but makes a mess of the document title. I suspect the latter is too Bell Labs specific.
Ken
s title')&(0) .ie'Anton's title'' .br
Charge and Filing Case Anton's title
s title'=0):(0=0) .ie120s title' - Case Anton's title
January 31, 2012
testing
Yours very truly,
I. Smith
CEO
J. Burke
CEO1
also OEC1
K. Willis
CEO2
sign.ps
Description: PostScript document
.warn .TL "Anton's title" .AU "I. Smith" IS YW D1 .AT CEO .AU "J. Burke" JB AR D2 .AT CEO1 "also OEC1" .AU "K. Willis" KW MO D3 .AT CEO2 .MT 5 .P testing .FC .SG
