Re: [Groff] Problems with man pages in 1.19?

[Larry Kollar]

Meg McRoberts wrote:

> I just upgraded my O/S to Mandrake and got groff 1.19.
> I have some manpages that formatted just fine on an
> earlier version of troff.
> 
> I have two main problems:
> - For the ASCII format, I'm getting a whole bunch of
>   screwy error messages such as:
> 
> ../../vsapi/truefiletypes.man:749: warning [p 10, 0.3i, div `3tbd18,5', 
> 0.7i]: cannot
> adjust line
> 
>   and the output has the 3m, 0m, 4m, etc characters spread around

> - The PDF output is generally formatting okay, but there is always
>   a big space after the "fi" string -- so it looks like "fi lename"
>   and "modifi ed"

The warnings look like stuff you get from MacOSX 10.2 when you compile without 
using "./configure CXX=g++2" -- what version of gcc do you have? I've heard 
that some Linux distros want to be more Mac-like, but they don't have to 
duplicate the bugs, too! :-P

I've seen the ligature problems with certain versions of Ghostscript (7.00, 
IIRC). No problems with AFPL Ghostscript 8.00.

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