> Wow, there were so many masters of troff/groff answering my stupid
> question. Thanks a lot.
It's not a stupid question at all. You are the first one who has ever
reported this problem.
> [...] I found the problem is caused by the old ``mmt'' macro
> shipped with OpenSolaris.
Aah.
> I found that when I run ``configure; make; make install'', if there
> are already macros under /usr/share/lib/tmac, groff will not
> generate a m.tmac file, instead, it always uses ``mmt'' under
> /usr/share/lib/tmac.
Yes, this is intentional.
> < /F0 10/[EMAIL PROTECTED] SF 524.18(-- --)0 10 R 2.5(-1-)277.006 58 S
> < (Hello w)69.336 106 Q(orld!)-.1 E 524.18(-- --)0 801.5 R 0 Cg EP
>
> [...] this results in the two short bars I mentioned.
Actually, you get *four* bars:
/F0 10/[EMAIL PROTECTED] SF
524.18(-- --)0 10 R
2.5(-1-)277.006 58 S
(Hello w)69.336 106 Q(orld!)-.1 E
524.18(-- --)0 801.5 R
0 Cg EP
Two at the top and two at the bottom.
> Another workaround might be ``mv'' or ``rm'' /usr/share/lib/tmac and
> then build groff, from then on, groff will always use its mm macro
> package.
The correct workaround is documented in the PROBLEMS file, which you
probably haven't read:
* groff produces wrapper macros for `ms' and friends which call the
system's original macros. Then, to get groff's ms macro package I
have to use `-mgs' instead `-ms'. Can I avoid this?
Yes. Configure and compile groff as usual, but install it with
make install tmac_wrap=""
Then no wrapper files are produced, and `-ms' uses groff's `ms'
macros.
Werner
