Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/09/23/09:30:20
Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT banet DOT net) wrote:
> I recently acquired some documentation which is written with *roff
> formatting commands. There is an instruction in the starting part of
> the document that tells me to run "ditroff -ms -Pip2 <filename>" to
> print the document.
>
> The "-ms" argument translates to groff OK, it says to use the macros
> in /share/groff/tmac/tmac.s, but the "-Pip2" argument seems to
> generate a message from grotty: "can't open `ip2'". If I add the
> parameter "-Tps" to print to Postscript, grops gives the same
> message about `ip2'.
-Pip2 means to groff: post-process with ip2, which (if it
exists) is perfectly valid, but if it doesn't....
-Pxyz on unix also tends to mean: print to printer/device xyz,
If you pipe the output to a file (without -Pip2), does that file look
usefull?
> TIA for any advice or info on this. BTW, just what does "ditroff"
> stand for, anyway? "display troff", maybe? Or "device independant
> troff"? Or what?
The latter (IIRC)
hth,
Robert
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