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From: rog@vit...
Subject: Re: [9fans] macro files with troff
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 22:25:38 0000

> When I begin writing the document with acme, how do I
> identify all the 'requests' set in the packages? For example, Would I need
> to look in /sys/lib/tmac/tmac.s for info on the -ms
> package or is there a table set up for them somewhere?
> Any other hints on how to begin using this would be
> appreciated.

ms(6) is useful here, but extremely terse.  you can get quite a long
way with this and copying idioms from the various examples in
/sys/doc.

what you really want is the documentation in the 10th edition
manuals... i doubt they're still in print though.

  rog.