Re: [Groff] Newbie - I can't remeber how to run troff anymore

[emammendes]

Dear Werner

Thanks you ever so much.  This grog thing is wondeful. Using the right
options I managed to avoid thousands of errors.
Some of them are still there, but I am going to check what I can do without
bothering you (and the people on the list).

Many many thanks

Eduardo



>
> > Here are the list of errors:
> >
> >
> > eqn:chap2.trf:318:fatal error: nested .EQ
> > :0: macro error: diversion open while ejecting page (recovering)
> >
> > In what follows is the part of the text in which the above error occurs:
> > [...]
>
> This code snippet doesn't produce an error if processed with the ms
> macros.  The error must be somewhere else.  Am I right that you
> haven't used groff ten years ago?  Then you should try the `-C' flag
> to activate compatibility mode with UNIX troff.  Maybe this helps.
>
> > chap1.trf:712: numeric overflow
> > chap1.trf:712: addition overflow
> > chap1.trf:573: numeric overflow
> > chap1.trf:573: numeric overflow
>
> The context is needed to analyze these warnings.
>
> > eqn:chap7.trf:1005: illegal input character code `13'
>
> This is harmless (but annoying, I know).  Simply remove the ^M
> character from that line.
>
> > chap6.trf:185: warning: `PG' not defined
> > chap6.trf:189: warning: `EP' not defined
>
> Hmm, what macros are you using?
>
> > chap6.trf:207: warning: `G1' not defined
> > chap6.trf:216: warning: `G2' not defined
>
> Aah, you need grap.  This is available from
>
>   http://www.lunabase.org/~faber/Vault/software/grap/
>
> You can always say `grog <your_file>' to test which preprocessors and
> which macro package you need.  It will fail for some recent mdoc
> files, though, due to the improved syntax of mdoc.
>
> > chap5.trf:376: macro error: bad arguments to PS (not preprocessed
> > with pic?)
>
> Have you used pic? :-)
>
>
>     Werner
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