Re: [Groff] eqn troubles

[Miklos Somogyi]

Dear Ralph, Werner, Clarke, Ted, Walter, Larry, Stefan, Robert, and  
Zvezdan!
I am overwhelmed by your responses to this problem.

To sum it up:

1) With Mac OS 10.5.5 Leopard came the groff suite of 1.19.2.
   It works ok except eqn that is not working at all.
   Not on Intel, not on IBM platforms.

2) With Mac OS 10.4 Tiger came groff 1.19.1 and it worked (and still  
works)   properly.
Robert Marks was kind enough to e-mail me a correctly compiled 1.19.2  
eqn.
Thank Robert very much. Unfortunately it did not recognize my CPU.
I have an IBM Power Mac from just before the Intel transition.

However, in the bowels of my external disk I still have a partition  
for Tiger
with the last backup on it. I copied its 1.19.1 eqn to /usr/bin and  
for the
time being the system works.
Of course, with more complex stuff the version incompatibility may  
show some
consequences, but I keep my fingers cross.

Gentlemen, I would like to thank you all for your kind attention and  
help.
Miklos


On 30/09/2008, at 11:28 AM, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote:

> On Sep 29, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Stefan Tramm wrote:
>
> > On Mac OS X 10.5.5 (with all latest patches applied)
> > eqn(1) seems to be broken!
> Confirmed.
> Mac OS X Leopard with all the updates applied (same uname -a output  
> as Stefan's except the host name).
> It does not work.
>
> I tried it with the Heirloom troff I compiled last year on the same  
> machine (installed in $HOME/opt).
> $ PATH=~/opt/ucb:$PATH
> $ cat >ted.ms <<EOT
> .EQ
> x = { Y + Z } over { A + B } times ( C + D )
> .EN
> EOT
> $ <ted.ms eqn | troff | dpost >ted.ps
> $ open ted.ps
>
> Yup, the equation is there.
>
> So, I compiled groff (installed in $HOME/opt again).
>
> $ tar xzvf ~/Downloads/groff-1.19.2.tar.gz
> $ cd groff-1.19.2
> $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/opt --with-appresdir=$HOME/opt/etc/ 
> gxditview
> $ make
> $ make install
>
> Tried Ted's example again:
>
> $ PATH=~/opt/bin:$PATH
> $ groff -Tps -e -ms > ted.ps << EOT
> .EQ
> x = { Y + Z } over { A + B } times ( C + D )
> .EN
> EOT
> $ open ted.ps
>
> Works.
>
> I hope this helps Miklos.
>
>         Zvezdan