Re: [Groff] Trouble switching to groff, macro gives syntax error...

[Damian McGuckin]

Hi Marisa,

On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Marisa Giancarla wrote:

> Im trying to convert my plain text documents to groff with -mm macro so 
> that i can generate plain text and pdf formats automaticly. When 
> processing it i get a syntax error.
>
> Here is the command I'm using:
>
> groff -p -t -mm -Tascii conimp.mm

Remove the '.1C' macro and Try

        nroff -p -t -mm conimp.mm

and see if the problem goes away.

> and I am trying to use the ".1C" macro.

Any reason why the .1C macro, e.g. you need to have '.2C' active prior?

- Damian

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