RE: [Groff] DESC question

On 21-Feb-05 Ersin Akinci wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I get the feeling this is going to be a RTFM question, but I haven't > been able to find a straight answer anywhere...What exactly is the > DESC file? When I type in "groff" on my Debian testing box all it > does is wait for input (it doesn't re

Re: [Groff] DESC question

> thebeast:/usr/src/groff-1.19.1# groff > groff: can't find `DESC' file > groff:fatal error: invalid device `ps' > > The groff on my Debian system is 1.18.1 and the groff I compiled is > 1.19.1. I compiled the new groff statically, could that be a > problem? Is this a bug, or do I need to set up

Re: [Groff] DESC question

> ... But I recently > compiled groff from scratch in another directory with a seperate > native toolchain I've been building, and when I run groff with no > options, this is the result: > > thebeast:/usr/src/groff-1.19.1# groff > groff: can't find `DESC' file > groff:fatal error: invalid device `

Re: [Groff] DESC question

Ersin Akinci wrote: >Hi everyone, > >I get the feeling this is going to be a RTFM question, but I haven't >been able to find a straight answer anywhere...What exactly is the >DESC file? When I type in "groff" on my Debian testing box all it > > > Stating the obvious, and despite all good answer

[Groff] japanese kana fonts

Hello all. I started learning japanese and it could be of great help if I had a japanese kana (and perhaps kanji) typesetting method. Is that possible in groff? Here is how I tried to do it on my own: (1) I googled on groff and japanese. There seems to be a "ja-groff" or "jgroff" with th

[Groff] Re: DESC question

Hey everyone, Thanks for all your suggestions and help! I did manage to find my "problem", though. Just for the record (for anyone else who might have this problem), compiling statically will yield the "No DESC" error. You need to compile linked to shared libraries. Alejandro made the point th

Re: [Groff] Re: DESC question

Ersin Akinci wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Thanks for all your suggestions and help! I did manage to find my > "problem", though. Just for the record (for anyone else who might > have this problem), compiling statically will yield the "No DESC" > error. You need to compile linked to shared librari