Re: [Groff] Groff pipeline plumbing problem

[Rick Richardson]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 08:30:10PM +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> 
> Hi Rick,
> 
> > It looks to me like the "groff" driver in the latest CVS version is
> > putting together bogus pipelines.  This is with the latest CVS
> > version:
> > 
> > $ /usr/local/test/bin/groff -P-Ixxx.1 -P-o0 -P-i100 -t -man -Thtml xxx.1
> > post-grohtml:<standard input>:1:fatal error: the first command must
> >     be `x T'
> > 
> > It appears to me that post-grohtml is getting exec'ed *twice* by
> > "groff", and the second time there is already HTML in its input!!!!!
> 
> What does groff's -V option show?  This displays the pipeline instead
> of executing it.
> 
>     % ./test-groff -V -P-Ixxx.1 -P-o0 -P-i100 -t -man -Thtml xxx.1
>     soelim xxx.1 | tbl | pre-grohtml -Ixxx.1 -o0 -i100 troff -man -Thtml |
>         post-grohtml -Ixxx.1 -o0 -i100

$ /usr/local/test/bin/groff -V -P-Ixxx.1 -P-o0 -P-i100 -t -man -Thtml xxx.1 
soelim xxx.1 | tbl | pre-grohtml -Ixxx.1 -o0 -i100 troff -man -Thtml | 
post-grohtml -Ixxx.1 -o0 -i100

This is the same pipeline that is reported by groff 1.17.  However,
it works fine with 1.17, but not with CVS 1.18.

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