[Groff] Re: 'man groff' reports end of file while defining macro `TP'

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I trussed "man groff" and found that it read the following tmac files,
> in the following order:
>
> /opt/reb/share/groff/1.19/tmac/troffrc
> /opt/reb/share/groff/1.19/tmac/tty.tmac
> /opt/reb/share/groff/1.19/tmac/hyphen.us
> /opt/reb/share/groff/1.19/tmac/hyphenex.us
> /opt/reb/share/groff/1.19/tmac/composite.tmac
> /opt/reb/share/groff/1.19/tmac/papersize.tmac
> /opt/reb/share/groff/1.19/tmac/tty-char.tmac
> /opt/reb/share/groff/1.19/tmac/latin1.tmac
> /opt/reb/lib/groff/site-tmac/an.tmac
> /opt/reb/share/groff/1.19/tmac/andoc.tmac
> /usr/share/lib/tmac/an
> /opt/reb/share/groff/1.19/tmac/troffrc-end
>
> These all are from groff 1.19, except for /usr/share/lib/tmac/an which
> is from Solaris 9.  "man gtroff" (which works), has the same include
> pattern as "man groff" (which doesn't work).
>
> I suspect that the problem is that groff.1 uses long definitions
> like ".de TP+" but these are being interpreted in compatibility mode
> so they screw up.  Does this sound plausible to you?

Your interpretation is correct.  I've fixed this now in the CVS: All
man pages from the groff package which don't work in compatibility
mode explicitly switch to non-compatibility mode temporarily.

Today, it probably makes more sense to install with

  make install tmac_wrap=""

so that no wrapper scripts for the Solaris troff macro packages are
installed.  What do you think of making this the default?  I would
then add a --wrap-macros configure option.


    Werner