Subject: Re: nroff 'ms' macros broken?
To: Jon Ribbens <jon@oaktree.co.uk>
From: J.D.Coleman <J.D.Coleman@newcastle.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/26/1997 15:59:50
> As far as I can tell, the nroff 'ms' macros in NetBSD are broken.
> (I have checked versions 1.1 and 1.2.1).
I haven't looked at the 'ms' macros, but when I use the 'me' macros, I
always get :
/usr/share/tmac/tmac.e:1082: a newline character is not allowed
in an escape name
This seems to play havoc with footnotes. I've started trying to track
this down, but (at the moment) I know very little about *roff. I wonder
if groff is slightly incompatibile with the version of *roff that the
macros were written for.
What error messages are generated?
J
PS. Does anyone know a good source for learning about *roff?