Re: [Groff] RfH: numeric expression expected (got `n')

2008-02-25 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Sonntag, den 24.02.2008, 10:54 +0100 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: > > I have a problem with man-pages written by the PSI3 projects. Man > > throws a warning about a macro the manpage authors wrote. > > > > However I don't know GROFF well enough to track the issue down. All > > I can say is, that th

Re: [Groff] RfH: numeric expression expected (got `n')

2008-02-24 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I have a problem with man-pages written by the PSI3 projects. Man > throws a warning about a macro the manpage authors wrote. > > However I don't know GROFF well enough to track the issue down. All > I can say is, that the warning is thrown for lines with the .pN > macro, which is defined earl

Re: [Groff] RfH: numeric expression expected (got `n')

2008-02-23 Thread Clarke Echols
Those would be the lines. Based on the error messages you're getting, which are produced by nroff being run by man, the text on lines 570, 571, ... 587 should be lines of the form: .pN "BS_FILE= " .pN "CUTOFF= " etc. At least that's what the manpage says at the end of the macro definit

Re: [Groff] RfH: numeric expression expected (got `n')

2008-02-23 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Samstag, den 23.02.2008, 20:39 -0700 schrieb Clarke Echols: > I looked at the macro definition, and everything in it seems to > be related to testing and defining strings. Thus I see no reason > why the formatter would complain. Obviously there must be something > in the file being processed t

Re: [Groff] RfH: numeric expression expected (got `n')

2008-02-23 Thread Clarke Echols
I looked at the macro definition, and everything in it seems to be related to testing and defining strings. Thus I see no reason why the formatter would complain. Obviously there must be something in the file being processed that is causing the problem. If you can provide the actual input line