Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Manual pages are actually written in a new language, defined > using the troff macro language. It is much simpler than the > real troff language. This may no longer be true. I see quite a few codes in manpages that aren't defined by man(7). For example, the manpage for [ contains sequences like .B \-b \fIfile\fP The \fI and \fP don't look like man macros to me. Richard Braakman