On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Ted Harding wrote:
> On 02-Aug-09 19:20:39, Bernd Warken wrote:
> >> Von: "Blake McBride"
> > T> groffer --ps --ps-viewer evince groff
> >> It doesn't display the pages (although "evince file.ps" works fine).
> >
> > I tried that with groff 1.18.1 of Debian te
When I look at Help / About I get (after typing 'evince'):
Document Viewer 2.26.1
Using poppler 0.15.5 (cairo)
The evince authors
I am using the latest version of Ubuntu Linux (9.04).
Just, FYI.
Blake McBride
On 02-Aug-09 19:20:39, Bernd Warken wrote:
>> Von: "Blake McBride"
> T> groffer --ps --ps-viewer evince groff
>> It doesn't display the pages (although "evince file.ps" works fine).
>
> I tried that with groff 1.18.1 of Debian testing and the actual
> CVS-code of 1.20.1.
> In both variations
> Von: "Blake McBride"
T> groffer --ps --ps-viewer evince groff
>
> It doesn't display the pages (although "evince file.ps" works fine).
I tried that with groff 1.18.1 of Debian testing and the actual CVS-code of
1.20.1.
In both variations, xour groffer command worked without problems. Th
Hi Blake,
> Digging in a little it seems that evince is passed a postscript file
> made in a temporary directory created in /tmp. The problem is that
> that directory seems to have been removed, thus evince couldn't
> display anything. Interestingly, if I do:
>
> groffer --ps --ps-viewer
>>> > .ie d misc*st-\\$1 .ds misc*st-\\$1 \\$2 \\*[misc*st-\\$1]
>
> This macro does simply the equivalent to
>
>foo = bar + foo
Uff, not a macro, it's a simple string definition.
Werner
>> > While looking at the MM code I noticed a line:
>> >
>> > .ie d misc*st-\\$1 .ds misc*st-\\$1 \\$2 \\*[misc*st-\\$1]
>> >
>> > It seems like .ds is taking three arguments.
>>
>> No, only two. The argument to the string name `misc*st-\\$1' is
>> `\\$2 \\*[misc*st-\\$1]'. `info groff' should g
