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- From: leisner@wrc.xerox.COM (Marty Leisner 311/? x?)
- Subject: indent 1.5 - troff option
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.130812.25163@spectrum.xerox.com>
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Reply-To: leisner.henr801c@xerox.com
- Organization: Xerox
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 13:08:12 GMT
- Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Lines: 51
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- I'm working on grinding listings...
-
- Indent 1.4 had problems, so I got 1.5 -- appears forget about the -troff option...
-
- I just got indent 1.5 up and running...the man page and the tex manual don't have a
- troff option defined...
-
- It appears the manual changed without updating the version. I'm printing edition
- 0.02, Version 1.3, May 1992 in the texinfo file...
-
- Looking at the texinfo manual source (I'm not texliterate, so I'm just guessing):
- @ignore
- This is intentionally undocumented because
- 1. Although GNU now has groff, it would be better to use TeX.
-
- 2. The output of indent -troff looks awful, so we have heard. Perhaps
- it would be reasonable to use this as a starting point to printing a
- program.
-
- If you are printing your program, you may wish to use the @samp{-troff}
- option to produce output suitable for processing by the @code{troff}
- program. When the @samp{-troff} option is specified, if the output file
- is not specified, the default is standard output, rather than formatting
- in place.
- @end ignore
-
- @c Ignore the following since it is not supported. When someone
- @c rewrites this program, an effort could be made to generate TeX.
- @c
- @c item -troff
- @c Format the program for printing with @code{troff}. Use of this option
- @c is not suggested.
- @c xref Miscellaneous options
- @c
- @c
-
- I guess this means forget about the troff option (maybe a good idea, it doesn't
- appear to work well).
-
- What's a good way to grind listings? I want to use the psmulti package to produce
- n-up output, so I need to use an output driver which users adobe's document structuring
- conventions...groff does, I'm using dvitps which doesn't...
-
- I ran vgrind on SunOS 4.1.1 and it doesn't appear to do anything useful
- (I ran vgrind -f file | groff -mindent - | lpr ) except put the output into italics...
-
- --
- marty
- leisner.henr801c@xerox.com
- Member of the League for Programming Freedom
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