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NAMEmm, osdd — print documents formatted with the mm macros SYNOPSISmm
[options]
[files] osdd
[options]
[files] DESCRIPTIONmm
can be used to format and print documents using
nroff
and the
mm
text-formatting macro package (see
nroff(1)).
It has options to specify preprocessing by
tbl
and/or
neqn,
(see
tbl(1)
and
neqn(1)),
and postprocessing by various terminal-oriented output filters.
The proper pipelines and the required arguments and flags for
nroff
and
mm
are generated, depending on the options selected. osdd
is equivalent to the command
mm -mosd. Optionsmm
recognizes the following
options
and command-line arguments.
Any other arguments or options (such as
-rC3)
are passed to
nroff
or to
mm,
as appropriate.
Such options can occur in any order,
but they must appear before the
files
arguments.
If no arguments are given,
mm
prints a list of its options.
- -Tterm
Specifies the type of output terminal;
for a list of recognized values for
term,
type
help term2.
If this option is
not
used,
mm
uses the value of the shell variable
$TERM
from the environment (see
profile(4)
and
environ(5))
as the value of
term
if
$TERM
is set;
otherwise,
mm
uses
450
as the value of
term.
If several terminal types are specified,
the last one is used. - -12
Indicates that the document is to be produced in 12-pitch.
Can be used when
$TERM
is set to one of
300,
300s,
450,
and
1620.
(The pitch switch on the
DASI
300 and 300s terminals must be manually
set to
12
if this option is used.) - -c
Causes
mm
to invoke
col(1);
note that
col(1)
is invoked automatically by
mm
unless
term
is one of
300,
300s,
450,
37,
4000a,
382,
4014,
tek,
1620,
and
X. - -e
Causes
mm
to invoke
neqn. - -t
Causes
mm
to invoke
tbl. - -E
Invokes the
-e
option of
nroff.
DIAGNOSTICSmm
sends the message
mm: no input file
if none of the arguments is a readable file and
mm
is not used as a filter. EXAMPLESAssuming that the shell variable
$TERM
is set in the environment to
450,
the two command lines below are equivalent:
mm -t -rC3 -12 ghh*
tbl ghh* | nroff -cm -T450-12 -h -rC3 mm
reads the standard input when
-
is specified instead of any file names
(mentioning other files along with
-
leads to disaster).
This option allows
mm
to be used as a filter, as in this example:
Hintsmm
invokes
nroff
with the
-h
option.
With this option,
nroff
assumes that the terminal has tabs
set every 8 character positions. Use the
-olist
option of
nroff
to specify ranges of pages to be output.
Note, however, that
mm,
if invoked with
one or more of the
-e,
-t,
and
-
options,
together
with the
-olist
option of
nroff
may cause a harmless ``broken pipe'' diagnostic
if the last page of the document is not specified in
list. If you use the
-s
option of
nroff
(to stop between pages of output),
use line-feed (rather than return or new-line)
to restart the output.
The
-s
option of
nroff
does not work with the
-c
option of
mm,
or if
mm
automatically invokes
col
(see
-c
option above and
col(1)). If you specify an incorrect output terminal type,
mm
produces (often subtle) unpredictable results.
However, if you are redirecting output into a file, use the
-T37
option, then use the appropriate terminal filter
when actually printing the formatted file.
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