From: utzoo!labs Newsgroups: gripes Title: macro madness Article-I.D.: utzoo.2260 Posted: Wed Jul 7 09:11:49 1982 Received: Wed Jul 7 09:11:49 1982 if it is REALLY necessary to have nroff ruin my final copy with error messages, at least these should be accurate. telling me i had a format error in line 1324 when my file contains only 900 lines doesn't help me very much. i am really annoyed that we get selective "improvements" in the macro package while really needed fixes are ignored (certain macros "biting each other [sorry to steal that line, wern] have been doing so and seemingly will continue to do so "forever"). on a system that is used almost solely for text processing, i find it appalling that so little importance is placed on having that system work properly. seems that netnews utilities merit more attention than mundane things like giving users proper, working tools to get work done. -- andy