Re: [Groff] Mom/Mac OSX strangeness

[Peter Schaffter]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2006, Larry Kollar wrote:
> > In the 1.5 version of the mom macros, I added some definitions to
> > facilitate the drawing of common graphical objects (rules, boxes,
> > ellipses).  All of them use the \D escape.
> > 
> > ... Recently, a user wrote me saying the macros *don't* work on his Mac
> > box (OSX) with groff 1.19.1. 
> 
> That's because the groff compiled with OSX is broken, primarily for pre-10.4 
> systems. The best thing your user can do is get the CVS and recompile groff 
> from there.
> 
> If he's *really* stuck, or isn't confident enough to replace his groff with a 
> compiled version, I think I have a 1.19.1 .pkg that I built laying around 
> somewhere.

Cool.  Thanks for the info.  I'll communicate with the user and see
how comfortable he is with building groff himself.  I'll get back
to you if I need that .pkg.

-- 
Peter Schaffter