Werner, You wrote: > here is a new pre-release of 1.19.2. Please test! ...
I just ran a build of this prerelease on my Win32/MSYS box. Two problems, both associated with either pdfroff or pdfmark. 1) Building in /d/local/test/build (/d/ is MSYS notion of what Win32 calls drive D:/), the build blows up, apparently passing a -D option to groff, when pdfroff trys to format cover.ms. I've turned on shell level "set -x" in the generated pdfroff, and tried to debug this, but can see no error in the command line that throws the exception. Move the source and build trees into /home/keith/test, and the problem goes away, so I suspect an MSYS bug -- might be worthy of a note in PROBLEMS? 2) With a successful build, in /home/keith/test, the generated pathname of the pdfmark.ms source file is too long for groff to fit it within the margins of the PDF output page. Groff displays four warnings about being unable to split the word, all at this one reference, which indeed overflows the edge of the page on the right hand side. I've always had this fit on the page, when I previously formatted this document, (it is the "groff-1.19.2-pre-20050527" rather than simply "groff" which makes the difference, but it does raise a previously unnoticed issue -- it is the *build* tree location of pdfmark.ms that appears in this document reference, and this file is not subsequently installed anywhere else. I guess we should install this document source in some example directory, and fix up the reference appropriately, for use in the generated PDF document. Do you have any preference as to where that should be? Best regards, Keith. _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
