Re: Eqn 1.19.2 Broken on MacOS X 10.5?

[Sarah K.]

Thak you, that's good to know. I've filed a bug report with Apple,
just in case it will help encourage them to either fix their binaries
or ship some non-broken binaries in some future release of Mac OS X.
In the meantime, I'll probably do the formatting I need on a Linux
machine instead.

Sarah

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Nick Stoughton <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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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