Re: [Groff] Oddities in mm - solved

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi,

> > > So... was the -mm option removed to allow people to specify other
> > > macro packages?
> > 
> > No, I just didn't want to confuse people, I tried to do as little as
> > possible with the arguments.
> > 
> > But you have a point, I have added support now in mmroff for use
> > with or without -mm.
> 
> I think that using grep for removing a second -mm on groff's command
> line is not necessary at all due to the following line in m.tmac:
> 
>   .do if d PH .nx
> 
> This will skip m.tmac if `PH' has been already defined.
> 
> Or do I miss something?

There was someone asking if -mm's reference macros were usable with
other macros, like -ms, given they seemed to be fairly modular.  The
`Ref' number register system seems to be generic so it may be useful to
have mmroff really be `xrefroff' and rely on the caller specifying the
-mm.  That way, if -ms ever expanded to `.mso xref...' then xrefroff
would work for both.

Cheers,


Ralph.