Hi Oliver, At 2023-11-21T19:49:09+0100, Oliver Corff wrote: > I tried to play with 4.MT by copying and renaming it as 6.MT and > calling .MT 6, but then the result is as if I had no .MT call at all. > Strange.
As weird as it seems, that's documented.
MT [type [addressee]]
Select memorandum type. These correspond to formats used
by AT&T Bell Laboratories, where the mm package was
initially developed, affecting the document layout. Some
of these included a cover page with a caption categorizing
the document. groff mm uses type to construct the file
name /home/branden/groff-HEAD/share/groff/1.23.0/tmac/mm/
type.MT and load it with the mso request. Memorandum types
0 to 5 are supported; any other value of type is mapped to
type 6. If type is omitted, 0 is implied. addressee sets
a string analogous to one used by AT&T cover sheet macros
that are not implemented in groff mm.
type Description
0 normal memorandum; no caption
1 captioned “MEMORANDUM FOR FILE”
2 captioned “PROGRAMMER’S NOTES”
3 captioned “ENGINEER’S NOTES”
4 released paper
5 external letter
See COVER for a more flexible cover sheet mechanism.
(Read something appropriate for your system where that filespec
appears.)
Jörgen Hägg seemed pretty intent on steering people to the `COVER`
macro. I think he intended groff mm's implementations of `LT` and `MT`
only for reproduction of historical AT&T documents (or those that made
no demands that DWB mm couldn't satisfy).
Regards,
Branden
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