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- From: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk (Alan Charlton)
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- Subject: Re: Groff won't do PostScript! Sob!
- In-Reply-To: cs911461@ariel.yorku.ca's message of Tue, 26 Jan 1993 08:44:03 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.084403.10094@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:41:19 +0000
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- In article <1993Jan26.084403.10094@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca> cs911461@ariel.yorku.ca (CHRISTIAN D. ARMOUR) writes:
-
- $ groff -Tps -man lc.1 > lc.ps
-
- Here's what it says:
-
- gtroff: can't open `DESC'
- gtroff: fatal error: sorry, I can't continue
-
- I had this problem. It appears that the groff which came with the
- 0.98.5 SLS (like wot I have) is - errr.... broken. As a stop-gap
- measure I did a work-around as follows:
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- groff -Tdvi file > file.dvi
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- then;
-
- dvips file.dvi -o file.ps
-
- ...which worked a treat on the elm 2.4.20 documentation. However, I
- then grabbed the sources for groff-1.06 from prep.ai.mit.edu and made
- it (and boy, does that c++ object code take up a lot of disk space!).
- I tried the `-Tps' thing again, and this time it worked. Strangely
- enough, though, I found that the fonts generated by dvips are *vastly*
- superior in terms of readability and style than the ones generated by
- the groff Postscript driver.
-
- Moral: don't bother with `groff -Tps' - use `groff -Tdvi'and `dvips'
- instead!
-
- Hope this helps,
-
- Alan
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