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Re: [Groff] geqn problem?
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Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] geqn problem? |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:04:30 +0200 (CEST) |
> > Didn't groff used to *always* install links to the groff verions
> > of the "standard" macros (ms, me, mm) with a "g" prefix? (-mm was
> > available as -mgm) Didn't it recently change to *not* installing
> > these prefixed versions *unless* the system already included other
> > versions of those macros?
>
> This might be true -- I looked through the documentation and did
> not find a description of the process.
Sigh. I'm documenting and documenting. This is a never-ending
story. Here's my roadmap:
a) Finish documentation of troff.
b) Document output devices.
c) Document preprocessors.
d) Document installation.
e) Document macro packages.
Volunteers are welcome to help with b)-e).
> I also did not see any easy way of telling groff during installation
> that the troff macros I use are not in /usr/share/lib/tmac or
> /usr/lib/tmac, but rather in /v/lib/tmac.
The current behaviour of looking up some `standard' places for UNIX
troff macro packages is ugly, very ugly.
To avoid these checks you should say
./configure
tmac_wrap= make
or something similar.
Some solutions to this problem:
a) Provide a configure option to activate/desactivate this test
instead of always doing it.
b) Modify the wrapper scripts (look at the `stamp-wrap' target in
tmac/Makefile.sub) to call the UNIX troff macro packages only if
in compatibility mode.
c) Introduce an environment variable GROFF_SYSTEM_MACROS. Only if
set, the UNIX troff macro packages are called.
I prefer a) and/or b) but haven't had time yet to implement it
(i.e. modifying the `stamp-wrap' target). Additionally, I don't have
access to UNIX troff so I can't validate any changes. Any help highly
welcome.
Werner
- [Groff] geqn problem?, Andrew Koenig, 2001/04/10
- Re: [Groff] geqn problem?, Andrew Koenig, 2001/04/11
- Re: [Groff] geqn problem?, Ralph Corderoy, 2001/04/11
- Re: [Groff] geqn problem?, Andrew Koenig, 2001/04/11
- Re: [Groff] geqn problem?, Werner LEMBERG, 2001/04/12
- Re: [Groff] 1.17 -Win32, Kees Zeelenberg, 2001/04/12
- Re: [Groff] 1.17 -Win32, Andrew Koenig, 2001/04/12
- Re: [Groff] 1.17 -Win32, Werner LEMBERG, 2001/04/13