Re: [Groff] Firt letters overlapping with MOM

[Deri James]

On Saturday 05 Oct 2013 12:34:33 Blake McBride wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I installed 1.22.2 and current on my Mac with:
> 
>         ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
>         make
>         sudo make install
> 
> (My Mac has GCC 4.2.1)
> 
> t.mom contains:
> 
> Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
> Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
> 
> 
> 
> I tried:
> 
> groff -T pdf t.mom >t.pdf
> 
> and it worked perfectly.  But when I do:
> 
> groff -T pdf -mom t.mom >t.pdf
> 
> The "o" and "w" of the first word only partially overlap.  Interestingly,
> the second copy of the sentence displays perfectly.
> 
> As I stated, I tried 1.22.2 and the current snapshot.  Same result.  I did
> try to check to be sure there isn't another copy in /usr/local or
> /opt/local.
> 
> I have no idea what to do, or why the -mom would have this effect.
>  Appreciate any help!
> 
> Blake McBride

Hi BlaKe,

One fix for this is to locate the two lines in om.tmac which start:-

.if '\\*[.T]'pdf' \X'papersize=

and add "\c" to the very end of both lines.

Cheers

Deri