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- From: syd@dsi.com (Syd Weinstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Formatting Elm document files: AIX, makefile, troff errors
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 14:07:52 -0500
- Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA
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- d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart) writes:
- >I have been asked how I format Elm document files in AIX 3.2. Below are
- >my supplemental makefile and its output. Note the following:
- > 1) nroff and/or PostScript output can be made.
- > 2) The \(co macros had to be substituted for troff.
- Thats not a macro, but a character from the character set. Its there in
- most character sets.
-
- > 3) troff generates "Font CW too big" errors.
- This means someone build the DESC.out file in the font directory incorrectly
- when they installed your fonts on the AIX (probably IBM :-) ) Personally,
- I'd report the problem to IBM and get them to fix it.
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- Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator - Current 2.4PL17
- Datacomp Systems, Inc. Projected 3.0 Release: ??? ?,1994
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