Re: [Groff] eqn troubles

[Stefan Tramm]

On Mac OS X 10.5.5 (with all latest patches applied)
eqn(1) seems to be broken!

$ groff -Tps -e -ms > ted.ps << EOT
 )
.EN
EOT> .EQ
 )
.EN
EOT> x = { Y + Z } over { A + B } times ( C + D )
> .EN
> EOT
eqn:<standard input>:2: syntax error
 context is
        >>> x <<<
$ uname -a
Darwin vax.local 9.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.5.0: Wed Sep  3  
11:29:43 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.7.58~1/RELEASE_I386 i386


Am 29.09.2008 um 19:22 schrieb (Ted Harding):

> As promised earlier, I have now visited my friend to see how
> his Macs deal with it. On both machines, I first entered (in a
> "terminal" window) the following:
>
> $ eqn << EOT
> .EQ
> x = y + z
> .EN
> EOT
>
> and got the usual slew of eqn output, and no error message.

Sorry for the bad news
Stefan