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Re: [Groff] trouble getting long names to work on Solaris


From: Dorai Sitaram
Subject: Re: [Groff] trouble getting long names to work on Solaris
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:15:23 -0400 (EDT)

Werner Lemberg wrote
>[dorai wrote] 
> > For a small file containing only the line
> > 
> > \f[CW]asdf\fP
> > 
> > groff 1.19 on Solaris, running in the default
> > non-compatibility mode, gives me 
> > 
> >              warning: can't find font '['
> > 
> What is the exact input?  By default, groff installs wrapper macros so
> that the original Sun troff macros are called (in compatibility mode).
> Does plain groff *without* a macro package fails also?  Otherwise, the
> groff macros have the `g' prefix, e.g. `groff -mgs ...' -- see the
> PROBLEMS file how to disable that.

Thanks, `make install tmac_wrap=""' solved the problem
nicely.  I wonder why just plain `make install'
was enough on Linux to populate the installed tmac
directory with the g-less macro files, but I can slowly
find out.  Thanks again.

--dorai

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