Re: About groff and dformat

[Riza Dindir]

Hello Thomas,

To make sure, I have this in my dformat.sh

awk -f dformat.awk $*

I tried with the dformat.awk that I have found
(https://github.com/arnoldrobbins/dformat) and the dformat.awk that
you have pointed out (https://github.com/sathlan/dformat). But still I
am getting the same error message and the dformat picture is displayed
partially.

What is the version of groff (mine is 1.22.4), and awk (mine is
20210215) that you are using? Clearly I must be doing something wrong.

Although I could just remove inline equations from the dformat spec in
the document, I would like to understand what is wrong.

Regards,
Riza

On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 9:59 PM Thomas Dupond <thomas@dupond.eu> wrote:
>
> Riza Dindir <riza.dindir@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
>
> Hi!
>
> > I am trying to get dformat to work. What I did was this.
> >
> > I first tried to include an example dformat script into my document. I
> > got the first example from the troff.org site
> > (https://troff.org/prog.html). The first example for the dformat
> > processor. That example has been using inline equations/math
> > expressions.
> >
> > Then I went and got the dformat awk script. That script I got from
> > (https://github.com/arnoldrobbins/dformat) which might not be the
> > original script.
>
> I know the following github repo is a transcript of the dformat by
> Jon L. Bentley:
>
> https://github.com/sathlan/dformat
>
> I had no problem generating your document with it. :)
>
> > Anyways I have this simple document.
> >
> > .TL
> > Some format
> > .NH
> > deneme
> > .EQ
> > delim @@
> > .EN
> > .LP
> > .begin dformat
> > style bitwid 0.08
> > style charwid 0
> > style recspread 0.3
> > noname
> >         --16 Frame
> >         --16 Frame
> >   A1:   --16 Frame
> >         --16 Frame
> >         --8-dashed ...
> > noname
> >   A2:   8--8 Flags
> >         8--8 Status
> >         --8 @roman Chunk sub 1@
> >   B1:   --8 @roman Chunk sub 2@
> >         --8-dashed ...
> >         --8 @roman Chunk sub m@
> >         16--16 CRC
> >   A3:   8--8 Flags
> > noname
> >   B2:   8--8 @roman Data sub 1@
> >         8--8 @roman Data sub 2@
> >         8--8 @roman Data sub 3@
> >         8--8 @roman Data sub 4@
> >         --8-dashed ...
> >         8--8 @roman Data sub n-1@
> >         8--8 @roman Data sub n@
> >         6--6 Length
> >   B3:   10--10 Channel #
> > pic line dotted from A1.sw to A2.nw
> > pic line dotted from A1.se to A3.ne
> > pic line dotted from B1.sw to B2.nw
> > pic line dotted from B1.se to B3.ne
> > .end
> >
> > And am running the command line as
> >
> > !sh dformat.sh format-test.ms | eqn | pic | groff -ms > main.ps
> >
> > The command says this
> >
> > pic:<standard input>:98: syntax error before '\'
> > pic:<standard input>:98: giving up on this picture
> >
> > Does anybody use dformat? Which dformat script are you using?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Riza
> >
> >
>
> --
> Regards,
> Thomas