Dear Ralph, Werner, Clarke, Ted, Walter, Larry, Stefan, Robert, and
Zvezdan!
I am overwhelmed by your responses to this problem.
To sum it up:
1) With Mac OS 10.5.5 Leopard came the groff suite of 1.19.2.
It works ok except eqn that is not working at all.
Not on Intel, not on IBM platf
On Sep 29, 2008, at 3:23 PM, Clarke Echols wrote:
On my old setup, I was using groff running in a bash shell as part
of the cygwin package, and got the shareware PostScript viewer
"GSView" which I really like for several reasons.
If you are not after flashy viewers, "gv" is still the best PostS
On Sep 29, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Stefan Tramm wrote:
On Mac OS X 10.5.5 (with all latest patches applied)
eqn(1) seems to be broken!
Confirmed.
Mac OS X Leopard with all the updates applied (same uname -a output as
Stefan's except the host name).
It does not work.
I tried it with the Heirloom
On Monday 29 September 2008 20:23:02 Clarke Echols wrote:
> I finally bit the bullet and got rid of my Windows 98 SE operating
> system, replaced the drive with a RAID mirror pair of 500 Gbyte
> drives, added 2 Gbytes of memory, and installed Ubuntu Linux.
>
> I feel like the outcast who came out o
Am Montag, 29. September 2008 schrieb Clarke Echols:
> I finally bit the bullet and got rid of my Windows 98 SE operating
> system, replaced the drive with a RAID mirror pair of 500 Gbyte
> drives, added 2 Gbytes of memory, and installed Ubuntu Linux.
>
> I feel like the outcast who came out of the
I finally bit the bullet and got rid of my Windows 98 SE operating
system, replaced the drive with a RAID mirror pair of 500 Gbyte
drives, added 2 Gbytes of memory, and installed Ubuntu Linux.
I feel like the outcast who came out of the cold dark winter into
the summer sunshine. :-)
On my old se
On Mac OS X 10.5.5 (with all latest patches applied)
eqn(1) seems to be broken!
$ groff -Tps -e -ms > ted.ps << EOT
)
.EN
EOT> .EQ
)
.EN
EOT> x = { Y + Z } over { A + B } times ( C + D )
> .EN
> EOT
eqn::2: syntax error
context is
>>> x <<<
$ uname -a
Darwin vax.local 9.5.0 Darwin Kern
Try recompiling from source. I know there was an issue in the 10.2
days, but they might still be around. I think the end of the PROBLEMS
file has the magic words to make good OSX binaries.
-- Larry
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 29, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Miklos Somogyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
As promised earlier, I have now visited my friend to see how
his Macs deal with it. On both machines, I first entered (in a
"terminal" window) the following:
$ eqn << EOT
.EQ
x = y + z
.EN
EOT
and got the usual slew of eqn output, and no error message.
Then I did essentially the same with groff:
may be Miklos can send the eqn output ?
re,
wh
Werner LEMBERG schrieb:
>> I searched the archives and found Robert's problems with eqn, but
>> nothing about the list of bad groff binaries on Macs.
>
> Ah, then my memory has tricked me. It's apparently only eqn which
> causes problems.
>
>
>
> I searched the archives and found Robert's problems with eqn, but
> nothing about the list of bad groff binaries on Macs.
Ah, then my memory has tricked me. It's apparently only eqn which
causes problems.
Werner
On 29-Sep-08 13:06:16, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> [...]
> [Miklos Somogyi wrote:]
>> [...]
>> Please note that eqn IS called, just it does not accept anything as
>> valid.
>
> Are you doing this on Mac OS X as your Mailer header suggests?
> There's rumours that eqn as shipped by Apple has issues.
>
On 29/09/2008, at 11:06 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
1) eqn filename -> syntax error "context is >>>
x=y+z <<<", though it should work
According to your mailing program you are using a Mac. Please look up
this list for bad groff binaries on Macs (this has been discussed a
few t
On 29/09/2008, at 11:56 PM, Clarke Echols wrote:
I wrote the following:
start groff source file
.ll 6.5i
.pl 11i
.sp |2.5i
This is some text.
.EQ
x + y = z
.EN
This is another line of text.
End of text.
End of groff file
I ran the command:
eqn textfile.roff |groff >textfile.
I wrote the following:
start groff source file
.ll 6.5i
.pl 11i
.sp |2.5i
This is some text.
.EQ
x + y = z
.EN
This is another line of text.
End of text.
End of groff file
I ran the command:
eqn textfile.roff |groff >textfile.ps
then opened the PS file using KGhostView on Ubu
On 29/09/2008, at 11:06 PM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Miklos,
(Please keep the list CC'd so it doesn't fall on only me to answer.)
Sorry, after a very long lull I forgot this ..
Did the two-line pipeline I provided work?
No
1) eqn filename -> syntax error "context is >
Hi Miklos,
(Please keep the list CC'd so it doesn't fall on only me to answer.)
Did the two-line pipeline I provided work?
> 1) eqn filename -> syntax error "context is >>> x=y+z <<<",
>
> though it should work
>
> 2) grog filename -> groff -e filename
>
>
Ralph,
1) eqn filename -> syntax error "context is >>> x=y+z <<<",
though it should work
2) grog filename -> groff -e filename
groff -e filename -> syntax error
3) groff -e -ms filename -> syntax error (-ms is what you suggested)
4) alias gr "groff -set -I d
Hi Miklos,
> .EQ
> x = y + z
> .EN
> .ex
>
> indicates a syntax error. No matter what is between .EQ and .EN, it is
> syntax error.
You're not really giving us enough to go on. What's the command line
you're using on the above file? This works for me.
echo top/.sp 2i/before/.EQ/x = y sup
I worked with eqn quite a lot in troff days of past-not-so-perfect. It
was rather easy to use.
Now I try my luck with groff's eqn and can't get anything going.
A simple groff program like this:
.EQ
x = y + z
.EN
.ex
indicates a syntax error. No matter what is between .EQ and .EN, it is
syn
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