Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bellcore!tness7!texbell!ssbn!carpet!bill From: bill@carpet.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: V/AT Text Preparation/Jetroff Keywords: troff man pages jetroff Message-ID: <152@carpet.WLK.COM> Date: 19 Sep 88 01:12:54 GMT Distribution: na Organization: W.L. Kennedy Jr. & Associates, Pipe Creek, TX Lines: 30 I made up the shareware jetroff package today and can report that it is well worth the $50 contribution he asks for. It appears to do everything that was claimed and it gets along fine with the LJ-II. I have encountered an anomaly with V/AT Text Preparation and jetroff. When I try to produce the man pages that came with it or some of the other I have the first part is omitted and the page starts with SYNOPSIS. It also occaisionally prints macros as though they were part of the man page text. I never saw this before because I could never use troff before. The symptom does not appear when I use nroff so I ASSume that the macros are OK. It also seems reasonable that since jetroff is a post-processor, he's not lopping things off the front or deciding that .RS is part of the text. I suspect that troff might be busted. Has anyone used Microport V/AT troff to produce manual pages? If so, did they appear to come out right? Which post-processor did you use? I might add that I noticed some anomalies using the -mm macros (fixed by changing some .I's to \fI) but the problem is most prevalent using the -man macros. Once the page gets going, other than the .RS, .IP, and .B that creep in from time to time it works just fine. Kudo's to Rick Richardson for working out such a useful tool. Phooey's to those that think he should give it away, it's a lot more than any of us could do/get for $50. You already spent over thirty times that for your LJ-II. -- Bill Kennedy Internet: bill@ssbn.WLK.COM Usenet: { killer | att | rutgers | uunet!bigtex }!ssbn!bill