Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!cit-vax!elroy!smeagol!earle From: earle@smeagol.UUCP Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin Subject: Re: Bug in `.ux' macro in 2.11 doc/tmac.n USENET TROFF macros ; fix Message-ID: <786@smeagol.UUCP> Date: Mon, 22-Dec-86 20:25:17 EST Article-I.D.: smeagol.786 Posted: Mon Dec 22 20:25:17 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Dec-86 07:05:27 EST References: <785@smeagol.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: JPL, Pasadena CA Lines: 33 Keywords: troff doc/tmac.n 2.11 Summary: *Sigh* - This apparently is an Adobe TranScript bug; NOT an `-mn' bug Xref: watmath news.software.b:132 news.admin:81 In article <785@smeagol.UUCP>, earle@smeagol.UUCP (That's me) wrote: > Description: > When a document using the Netnews `-mn' macros uses the `.ux' macro > to print out the word `UNIX', it checks a number register to see > if this is the first time the macro has been invoked. If so, it prints > the word `UNIX' followed by the Registered Trademark symbol, (R) > (Sorry, that's as close as I can come :-) and of course puts in the > obligatory footnote at the bottom of the page. Unfortunately, the > rest of the text on the line after the Trademark symbol is printed > *below* the text preceeding the `UNIX(R)'; i.e., the vertical space > in the current diversion is wrong. Arrgghh. The problems with only having one printer and no control to test against. According to Rick Adams, and others without PostScript LaserWriters, the bug is NOT in the macro package; the output is fine on their printers. It appears that we've tickled a bug in the Adobe TranScript program `pscat', which is used to convert the troff CAT output into PostScript. Therefore, you need only install this `fix' if you wish to work around this problem *iff* you have a LaserWriter and the TranScript package. Sorry for any inconvenience it caused. -- Greg Earle UUCP: sdcrdcf!smeagol!earle; attmail!earle JPL ARPA: elroy!smeagol!earle@csvax.caltech.edu smeagol!earle@usc-oberon.usc.edu earle@jplpub1.jpl.nasa.gov (For the daring) AT&T: +1 818 354 4034 TAPPING? You POLITICIANS! Don't you realize that the END of the "Wash Cycle" is a TREASURED MOMENT for most people?!