Re: [Groff] Groff pipeline plumbing problem

[Rick Richardson]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 02:26:22PM +0000, Gaius Mulley wrote:
> 
> Hi Ralph,
> 
> > It may be related to src/preproc/html/pre-html.cc changing after groff
> > 1.17 to use `groff -Z' instead of `troff' in order to pick up
> > GROFF_BIN_PATH.
> 
> > Gaius, any ideas?
> 
> yes it now uses groff -Z rather than try and work out what the *roff
> processor is called (ie gtroff or troff). The pipeline that Rick emailed
> looks ok I believe, groff -Z should eventually emit ditroff output,
> the same as troff or gtroff.
> 
> hope this helps?

But that pipeline doesn't work, it fails with a fatal error:

$ /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'

Inspection of the input to the complaining post-grohtml shows that the
input it is getting is already HTML, not device independent troff
language.

-Rick

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