RE: groff bug?

[Ted Harding]

Hi John,
It may well be a compilation or installation problem. I haven't checked
your file with groff 1.17.2 (which I don't have running here), but
with groff 1.16.1 on Linux I got no problems at all with your file;
it all came out looking as it should. The only minor point was a warning:

  macro warning: .NH 0 followed by .NH 2

But that's no problem since this was presumably what you intended
(or, even if it wasn't, it could have been ... ).

Best wishes,
Ted.

On 10-Apr-03 John Koval wrote:
> Running groff 1.17.2 compiled unded gcc 2.95.2 on Sun SPARCS and
> Ultras, running SunOS 5.8 (also known as Solaris 2.8 or Solaris 8???)
> 
> Small files run fine, but the attached file, when run with command
> groff -et -ms filename 
>  produces  the following error messages
> 
> testg:67: warning: can't find font `['
> testg:67: missing closing delimiter
> testg:67: missing closing delimiter
> testg:74: missing closing delimiter
> testg:74: missing closing delimiter
> testg:85: missing closing delimiter
> testg:85: missing closing delimiter
> testg:95: missing closing delimiter
> testg:95: missing closing delimiter
> testg:104: missing closing delimiter
> testg:104: missing closing delimiter
> testg:112: missing closing delimiter
> testg:112: missing closing delimiter
> 
> also when previewed with gxditview,
> has 
> 2.TS before each table
> and 
> 2.PP after first table
> as weil as having problems with all major equations
> 
> We tried to compile groff 1.18.?? but had some problems,
> presumably because we were not using gcc 3.???,
> but when we tried to compile gcc 3.???, we also had some problems.
> 
> I am really looking forward to using groff, because
> 1. I have been personally maintaining ditroff and xtroff
> 2. I have several sets of courses notes (total of over 1000 pages)
> written in troff
> 3. I would like to be able to work on my pc at home, as well as on the
> Sun machine at work
> 
> Thanks for your help in this.
> 
> 
> John Koval      Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
> University of Western Ontario  London Ontario Canada N6A 5C1
> (519)661-2111 Ext. 86271         address@hidden
> FAX: (519)661-3766                    

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Date: 11-Apr-03                                       Time: 09:46:29
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