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Date:      Tue, 22 Oct 2002 23:59:54 +1000
From:      Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   groff -ms breakage
Message-ID:  <20021022235954.A34501@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au>

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It seems groff is failing to format most of the roff documentation
in src/share/doc, for example psd/15.yacc. Here is the output
that groff -Tascii -ms produces on -current:

ss..:44: warning: number register `0:LL' not defined
ss..:44: warning: number register `0:ri' not defined
ss..:44: warning: number register `0:pri' not defined
ss..:44: warning: number register `0:LT' not defined
ss..:44: warning: number register `0:li' not defined
ss..:44: warning: number register `0:pli' not defined
ss..:44: warning: `FAM' not defined
ss..:44: warning: number register `0:PS' not defined
ss..:44: warning: number register `0:VS' not defined
[etc.]
ss..:55: warning [p 1, 0.0i, div `cov*ab-div', 0.3i]: can't break line
ss..:55: warning [p 1, 0.0i, div `cov*ab-div', 0.5i]: can't break line
ss..:55: warning [p 1, 0.0i, div `cov*ab-div', 0.7i]: can't break line
[etc.]

     Com-
     puter
     pro-
     gram
     input
     gen-
     er-
     ally
     has
     some
     struc-

here is the output from the same command on 4.7-RELEASE:

          Computer  program  input  generally  has some
     structure; in fact, every  computer  program  that
     does  input  can  be  thought  of  as  defining an
     ``input language'' which  it  accepts.   An  input

Reverting s.tmac to an earlier version does not seem to fix the problem.
Also, postscript and html output formats seem much less broken than text.


Tim

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