Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-04-26 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> It appears that groff doesn't pass the command line font directories > on directly but rather sets an environment variable > ($GROFF_FONT_PATH). This is correct. > That variable does seem to be set correctly for both grn and troff, > but they don't seem to be paying any attention to it. Stran

Re: [Groff] groff and layout stability

2005-04-26 Thread Alejandro López-Valencia
On 4/26/05, Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On comp.tex.latex there was some discussion w.r.t. document layout > stability and hyphenation patterns: > > Subject: Consistency of US hyphenation patterns across distributions > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Up to today, noone

Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-04-26 Thread Larry Jones
Werner LEMBERG writes: > > Strange. The function font::load_desc (in font.cpp) calls > font::open_file (in fontfile.cpp) which in turn calls > font_path.open_file, where font_path is a search_path which explicitly > uses $GROFF_FONT_PATH. Looking into searchpatch.cpp you can see that > search_pa

Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-04-26 Thread Jim Reid
BSD/OS 4.2. Ahhh. IIRC, Jim Reid had a similar problem a few months ago, also on BSD. Don't know what version he was using, or if he ever found a solution :-( It was BSD/OS 4.2 too. I never found the time to get to the bottom of the problem and abandoned updating groff on that box. Somebody cha

Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-04-26 Thread Keith Marshall
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 10:19 am, Jim Reid wrote: > >> BSD/OS 4.2. > > > > Ahhh. IIRC, Jim Reid had a similar problem a few months ago, also on > > BSD. > > Don't know what version he was using, or if he ever found a solution > > > > :-( > > It was BSD/OS 4.2 too. I never found the time to get to

Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-04-26 Thread Keith Marshall
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 4:22 am, Jim Reid wrote: > On Apr 27, 2005, at 02:44, Keith Marshall wrote: > > I'm almost sorry I bothered to mention Jim Reid at all; I had > > forgotten what > > an irascible character he is, and I felt rather disinclined to even > > grace > > this drivel with a respon