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mm(1) mm(1)
NAME
mm, osdd - print documents formatted with the mm macros
SYNOPSIS
mm [ options ][files ]
osdd [ options ][files ]
DESCRIPTION
mm 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 argu-
ments and flags for
nroff and mm
are generated, depending on the options selected.
osdd is equivalent to the command mm -mosd
.
Options
mm 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; oth-
erwise,
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 ter-
minals 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.
DIAGNOSTICS
mm sends the message mm: no input file if none of the arguments is a readable file and
mm is not
used as a filter.
EXAMPLES
Assuming 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:
cat dws | mm -
Hints
• mm 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,orif 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
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