Re: [Groff] checkeq functionality available?

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Steve,

> I'm not a troff person, but one of my users is.  After moving to
> linux, he is missing the "checkeq" command.  According to the
> manpages I found (search google for "checkeq"),
> 
>     checkeq reports missing or unbalanced delimiters and .EQ/.EN pairs.
> 
> Is there an equivalent using the groff tools?

Not that I know of.

Anyone know what the motivation behind creating checkeq was?  Was it
just that eqn was slow in those days, or that eqn had poor error
reporting/recovery?

If so, it might be worth just trying `eqn "$@" >/dev/null' in a checkeq
shell script to see if that satisfies your user.  Let us know if this
is sufficient, or if not, what things it fails to help with.

Cheers,


Ralph.