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- From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
- Subject: Re: Groff's PS output isn't fit for my dog.
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- References: <9301110537.AA13756@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu>
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.082051.17785@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:20:51 GMT
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- Dan Newcombe (STDN%MARIST.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu) wrote:
-
- : This probably isn't the best place for this, but all there is under
- : gnu.groff is bug, and for all I know this may just be a me and
- : linux problem. Anyway, I got some stuff from MIT
- : (export.lcs.mit.edu /pub/R5untarred/doc/tutorial/HelloWorld) or
- : something like that. Anyway, it is basically how to do the
- : Hello World under X. I already had this in postscript format so I know
- : what it should look like, but when I ran it through gtbl and groff
- : I got postscript output, but instead of it being nicely formated, it
- : was all jumbled together, most of the text lumped into on huge paragraph.
- :
- : Is this normal? I used gtbl xhw.0 | groff -Tps > xhw.ps and then
- : looked at it using gs. Same thing also happened when I output it as
- : type dvi. Can some kind and generous soul please tell me what I am
- : doing wrong. Thanks...
-
- You probably forgot to give groff a -m[s,e,an,doc,whatever] flag.
-
- : BTW, when I run it through xmkmf (there is an Imakefile) it wants
- : to use psroff with the option -ms. Well, psroff didn't really work
- : that well for me, and -ms bombs under both, not being able to find
- : the macro s. And this is the same Imake.tmpl and stuff that came
- : with X. I didn't touch it...
-
- You might not have the -ms macros, or your macros might be corrupted or bad.
- I got the -ms macros from groff-1.6, and they work for me.
- --
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