Re: [Groff] installing 1.18.1 on an iMac

[Werner LEMBERG]

> >       But a large number of "can't break line" messages were
> >       generated to standard error *.n files were being made from
> >       *.man files.
> 
> That sounds like errors I get on Linux when groff'ing a file with
> DOS-style or Mac-style line breaks. I've learned that MacOS X
> Terminal apps expect the Unix line break, not the Mac line break. I
> wonder whether the automatic unpacking (Stuffit Expander) "fixed"
> the text files to have Mac line breaks.

It is possible that you also see warning messages like

  [p 3, 10.8i]: cannot adjust line

These are new and indicate ugly formatting; you can switch them off
with -Wbreak or -Ww (to disable all warning messages).


    Werner