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From: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Fish-Guts)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: troff2lj problems
Message-ID: <363@uwslh.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 88 12:50:53 GMT
References: <415@ctisbv.UUCP> <2642@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Reply-To: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Fish-Guts)
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison, State Hygiene Lab
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This may or may not help, but here I go anyways.  BTW, I am running
troff2lj on a VAX running Unix 4.3BSD.

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.  What was
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
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Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene                   lishka%uwslh.uucp@cs.wisc.edu
Immunology Section  (608)262-1617                            lishka@uwslh.uucp
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