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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.so g.tmac +.so u.tmac . .de @h . sp |36p @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ . .t Hacking on the -.x mg +.x µ macro package .d John Ankarström @@ -20,9 +20,11 @@ John Ankarström . .h What is -.x mg ? +.x µ ? .p -.i Mg +.i µ +or +.i mu is a simple macro package for troff designed to abstract as little as possible from troff itself, while still providing a powerful framework for @@ -31,23 +33,23 @@ writing advanced documents. . .h How is the source code of -.x mg +.x µ organized? .p If you run .c "grep -n [-]-" on the -.i g.tmac +.i u.tmac source file, you are presented with an overview of -.i mg 's +.i µ 's macros: .l .eo -!grep -n [-]- g.tmac +!grep -n [-]- u.tmac .ec .p This is a sufficient summary of the entire -.i mg +.i µ source code, as nothing is performed outside of these macros. All initialization is performed in the .c @a @@ -55,12 +57,12 @@ macro, which is automatically called at the first invocation of any other macro. .p The above summary reflects a categorization in the macros defined by -.i mg . +.i µ . There are internal and external macros. The former are to be used within -.i g.tmac +.i u.tmac itself, while the latter are to be used in -.i mg +.i µ documents. Among the external macros, there are inline, environment (or block-level), hybrid and other macros. @@ -90,7 +92,7 @@ Where is document state stored? .p Most state is stored by troff itself within the different environments. In addition, -.i mg +.i µ associates three extra registers with each environment: .c sp , the amount of space to be added by @@ -158,5 +160,5 @@ contains the total number of collected footnotes. .p Note that none of these registers and strings should be directly accessed or modified by -.i mg +.i µ documents. |