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Re: [Groff] Mom/Mac OSX strangeness
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Peter Schaffter |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Mom/Mac OSX strangeness |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:29:57 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 |
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006, Larry Kollar wrote:
> > In the 1.5 version of the mom macros, I added some definitions to
> > facilitate the drawing of common graphical objects (rules, boxes,
> > ellipses). All of them use the \D escape.
> >
> > ... Recently, a user wrote me saying the macros *don't* work on his Mac
> > box (OSX) with groff 1.19.1.
>
> That's because the groff compiled with OSX is broken, primarily for pre-10.4
> systems. The best thing your user can do is get the CVS and recompile groff
> from there.
>
> If he's *really* stuck, or isn't confident enough to replace his groff with a
> compiled version, I think I have a 1.19.1 .pkg that I built laying around
> somewhere.
Cool. Thanks for the info. I'll communicate with the user and see
how comfortable he is with building groff himself. I'll get back
to you if I need that .pkg.
--
Peter Schaffter