ELM guides and troff

[Syd Weinstein]

alexis at panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>I've just installed ELM on our system. (Patchlevel 11, from dsi.com.)

>Everything seems to have gone OK, except that the various Guides that come
>with ELM are so much garbage after being formatted. The formatting consists
>of the command "tbl {a guide} | troff tmac.n -", and this fails silently. The
>output file winds up containing lots of garbage.
The output file contains codes to drive a typesetter, and a post processing
program is requried to change it to something your printer can understant
such as tpscript (freely distributed software) or transscript (adobe)
for postscript conversion, and others for laser jet conversion.


>On the other hand, I can produce almost-perfect Guides by piping them through
>"tbl | nroff -man". (So those man macros are good for something after all :-).)
better yet would be "tbl | nroff tmac.n -"

>The question is, what's wrong, how do I fix it, and is it worth fixing?
Nothings wrong, troff is for typesetters.

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