Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 26212
ms(7) manpage missing; groff_ms incomplete
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:31:12 EDT
groff emulates the traditional UNIX troff and nroff environment. One part is the -ms macro package. The only ms documentation provided is groff_ms(7) which explains the differences from ms(7) and tells the reader to read ms(7). RHL7.0 does not include ms(7). Please add it. I read ms(7) from an old Solaris manual. It documented a number register PD. PD does not exist in groff's ms, nor is it documented as a difference. This issue came up because I was porting a document
If you know a good source for ms documentation, please open a new bugzilla report with an URL for it. I am more than happy to extend the docu beyond the info files etc.
It looks as if the traditional documentation is copyright Bell Labs and AT&T. It would probably be good to mention this in the See Also section of groff_ms(7). The man pages can be found on the web. For example: http://netlib.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/index.html http://netlib.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/vol1/man8.bun http://netlib.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/vol2/msmacros.bun http://netlib.bell-labs.com/10thEdMan/msdoc.pdf http://docs.sun.com:80/ab2/coll.40.6/REFMAN5/@Ab2PageView/49965?Ab2Lang=C&Ab2E! http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~janp/Help/textms.html