-ms or -mm macro package ?

[jsq at ut-sally.UUCP]

The 4.1xBSD nroff can be hacked to support the USG -mm macros by adding
one command.  It's about ten lines of code.  If you don't want to do that,
you can do a simple global replacement on the -mm macros and take care of
most of the offending cases (it has to do with page numbering).

Getting the System V nroff up on 4BSD is also not really that hard.

My impression of the BRL System-V-on-4BSD emulator thus far is that it is
a useful idea but needs more work.

It's not clear why anybody wants to compare -ms and -mm.  Comparing -me
and -mm would be more appropriate.  The -me macros do several things the
-mm ones don't, such as produce decent indexes.  The -mx macros that come
with 4.2BSD (basically -ms plus indexes, and so forth) also might be
a contender.
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John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas
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