Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!elroy!gryphon!vector!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (John F. Haugh II) Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs Subject: Re: troff2lj problems Message-ID: <5334@rpp386.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 88 14:22:18 GMT References: <415@ctisbv.UUCP> <2642@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <363@uwslh.UUCP> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) Organization: HASA, "S" Division Lines: 43 In article <363@uwslh.UUCP> lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Fish-Guts) writes: >In article <2642@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> cck@deneb.ucdavis.edu.UUCP (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes: >>Has anyone brought this up under SCO 286 Unix? I compiled it in >>several flavors and got an overstruck mess down the left side of >>the paper. > > I had a problem with the text coming out with bad margins on the >left side and some overstruck characters on the right side. This >turned out not to be a problem with troff2lj, but rather it was bad >troff macro package definitions, particularily -man. the fixes i've had to use in the past have been redownloading the soft fonts, or making sure i am using the old C/A/T version of troff. plexus, in their transfinite wisdom, renamed the old troff to `otroff' and the new device independent troff has become `troff'. a quick check of programs SCO includes with their text processing system reveals that only one troff is included. and if murphy has his way, it is the WRONG one ;-) >happening was that (in the macro package) .ll was being used to change >the default line length to be longer, but .po (page offset, i.e. left >margin) was *not* being changed to reflect this. This really messed >up troff. > > Like I said, this may or may not help. > >>E H. Kinmonth Hist. Dept. Univ. of Ca., Davis Davis, Ca. 95616 >>916-752-1636/0776 > > -Chris >-- >Christopher Lishka ...!{rutgers|ucbvax|...}!uwvax!uwslh!lishka >Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene lishka%uwslh.uucp@cs.wisc.edu >Immunology Section (608)262-1617 lishka@uwslh.uucp > ---- >"...Just because someone is shy and gets straight A's does not mean they won't >put wads of gum in your arm pits." > - Lynda Barry, "Ernie Pook's Commeek: Gum of Mystery" -- John F. Haugh II +--------- Cute Chocolate Quote --------- HASA, "S" Division | "USENET should not be confused with UUCP: killer!rpp386!jfh | something that matters, like CHOCOLATE" DOMAIN: jfh@rpp386.uucp | -- apologizes to Dennis O'Connor