Re: 'man groff' reports end of file while defining macro `TP'

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I just tried 'make install tmac_wrap=""' and it didn't fix the
> problem:

Have you uninstalled groff before?  There is a high chance that there
is a conflict due to the priority of the search path for groff macro
files.

> Also, I don't get the problem when I run "man gtroff" or any of the
> other man pages -- just "man groff".  So I suspect it has something
> to do with the groff man page itself.

I don't think so.  I'm rather sure that it is caused by `.cp 1'
somewhere in the wrapper files.

> fixmacros.sed makes a few changes, but they're all wrong.  For
> example, it replaces "\fBsolaris\&.role\&.assign\fR" with
> "\fBsolaris\&.role\&.assi gn\fR".

Please send me a list of the wrong decisions so that I can correct
fixmacros.sed.

> I checked Solaris 9 /usr/share/man for man pages affected by
> fixmacros.sed -- including man pages that are generated dynamically
> with /usr/lib/sgml/sgml2roff -- and found only one change that
> might be useful, namely this:
>
>       -.br\}
>       +.br \}
>
> but this appears to me to be unnecessary?

Yes, it is unnecessary.


    Werner