Re: [Groff] is .NP still in ms?

2015-02-04 Thread Doug McIlroy
> I've done some more digging. 7th Ed.'s usr/lib/tmac/tmac.s has `.wh 0 NP' Good sleuthing, Ralph! Doug

Re: [Groff] is .NP still in ms?

2015-02-04 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Doug, > .NP certainly wasn't there in the beginning, and -ms has been very > stable in the 35 years since. If my guess that it would mean "new > page" is right, the feature would be out of character--why give a new > name to an existing request? I've done some more digging. 7th Ed.'s usr/lib/

Re: [Groff] is .NP still in ms?

2015-02-04 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
>From keith.d.marsh...@ntlworld.com Wed Feb 4 06:06:14 2015 > >On 03/02/15 12:05, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: >> In the "UNIX processing handbook", 1988, there is a mention of .NP >> macro for ms macros. > >I assume you mean the reference on page 105, (in the PDF version of UTP, >as produced by vari