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Re: Eqn 1.19.2 Broken on MacOS X 10.5?


From: Nick Stoughton
Subject: Re: Eqn 1.19.2 Broken on MacOS X 10.5?
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:43:05 -0800

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 15:27 -0800, Sarah wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone happen to know if the eqn that ships with MacOS 10.5 is,
> well, completely broken? Or am I doing something very basic wrong?

This has been reported here before ... see the thread "eqn troubles" on
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2008-09/threads.html

Basically ... the Mac binaries are no good!

> 
> 720$ cat eqn.in
> .EQ
> x=y+z
> .EN
> 
> 721$ eqn <eqn.in
> .if !'\*(.T'ps' .if !'\*(.T'html' .tm warning: eqn should have been
> given a `-T\*(.T' option
> .if '\*(.T'html' .if !'ps'ps' .tm warning: eqn should have been given
> a `-Tps' option
> .if '\*(.T'html' .if !'ps'ps' .tm warning: (it is advisable to invoke
> groff via: groff -Thtml -e)
> .lf 1 /usr/share/groff/1.19.2/tmac/eqnrc
> .\" Startup file for eqn.
> .EQ
> .nr 0C \n(.C
> .cp 0
> .ds 10
> .cp \n(0C
> .lf 63
> .EN
> .lf 1 -
> .EQ
> .nr 0C \n(.C
> .cp 0
> .ds 10
> eqn:<standard input>:2: syntax error
> .cp \n(0C
> .lf 3
> .EN
> 
>  context is
>         >>> x=y+z <<<
> 
> 722$ eqn -v
> GNU eqn (groff) version 1.19.2
> 
> The same file works ok on a Solaris box, and on an Ubuntu 8.04 machine
> running groff 1.18.1.
> 
> Is there a simple fix for this, other than installing and/or building
> a separate copy of eqn?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sarah
> 
> 
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