Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!wyse!vsi1!ames!mailrus!ncar!oddjob!uwvax!uwslh!lishka 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 Lines: 31 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 -- 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"