Re: [groff] Release Candidate 1.22.3.rc1

[Bertrand Garrigues]

Hi Ralph,

On Sat, Feb 17 2018 at 01:05:38 PM, Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:
> Various compilation warnings result, that you probably know about.
>
> Output includes
>
>     common.roff: elapsed time: 0 seconds
>     common.roff: elapsed time: 0 seconds
>     troff: ../doc/automake.mom:54: can't transparently output node at top 
> level
>     common.roff: elapsed time: 0 seconds
>     common.roff: elapsed time: 0 seconds
>     common.roff: elapsed time: 0 seconds
>     common.roff: elapsed time: 0 seconds
>     common.roff: 2018-02-17 12:44:52 +0000 Sat ***
>     fonts_n.roff: listing font 'AB'...
>     common.roff: elapsed time: 1 seconds
>     fonts_n.roff: listing font 'ABI'...
>
> Is that troff error and date OK?
>
>     troff: ../contrib/mom/examples/mon_premier_doc.mom:134: can't
> translate character code 168 to special character 'ad' in transparent
> throughput
>     troff: ../contrib/mom/examples/typesetting.mom:130: warning: can't find 
> special character 'u00A0'
>
> There's quite a few of this kind of thing.  A quick skim of INSTALL
> didn't find any `ignore these'.

I think the resulting typesetting.pdf  file is broken?  I have seen this
kind of errors before, usually when there is a problem with font
installation of more recently after an upgrade of ghostcript.  I will
install Ubuntu 17.1 on a virtual machine to debug this issue.

Regards,

Bertrand