Re: [Groff] checkeq functionality available?

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Robert,

> The text below has a missing delimiter at line 32.  The result of
> processin with geqn is
> 
> groff -ms -e junk.trf > j
> geqn:junk.trf:73:fatal error: end of file before `$'

Here's a patch that improves one error message.

    % cat j
    .EQ
    delim $@
    .EN
    This is a test.
    $ alpha @ is listed here.
    This is a test.
    $ alpha is listed here.
    This is a test.

    % src/preproc/eqn/eqn j >/dev/null
    eqn:j:9:fatal error: unterminated `$' at line 7, looking for `@'

Cheers,


Ralph.


--- src/preproc/eqn/main.cc.orig        Fri Apr 20 14:35:00 2001
+++ src/preproc/eqn/main.cc     Wed Dec  5 17:16:46 2001
@@ -190,7 +190,8 @@
       }
       str += ptr;
       if (!read_line(fp, &linebuf))
-       fatal("end of file before `%1'", end_delim);
+        fatal("unterminated `%1' at line %2, looking for `%3'",
+            start_delim, start_lineno, end_delim);
       linebuf += '\0';
       ptr = &linebuf[0];
     }