Re: [Groff] grog misidentifies -ms document

[Larry Kollar]

Robert Goulding wrote:

> If an -ms document contains a .SH heading and a table with a header 
> (and hence a .TH request), grog identifies the document as -man rather 
> than -ms.  For the following -ms document, grog guesses groff -man -t 
> > :
>
> .SH
> Price Table
> .LP
> The following table gives some prices:
> .TS H
> allbox, tab(&);
> lb lb
> l n.
> Item&Price
> .TH
> Strawberries&$1.43
> Apples&$1.00
> .TE

While the SH, LP, and TS/TE macros are common between -ms and -man, and 
indeed mean the same thing, the TH macro would be the first called in a 
manpage... so a TH *outside* a TS/TE pair would indicate a manpage. TH 
inside that pair should basically be ignored.

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