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Re: [Groff] PostScript question
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Peter Schaffter |
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Re: [Groff] PostScript question |
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Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:52:59 -0400 |
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On Fri, Oct 29, 2004, Ted Harding wrote:
> Sorry, I misunderstood your email. Taking a chunk out of the above
> hexadecimal PostScript:
>
> <7570705d72205d5d735d2e20
> u p p ] r ] ] s ] .
>
> 5d425d445d4647485d4a4b4c4d4e4f505152535455565758595a2e>
> ] B ] D ] F G H ] J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z .
>
> So clearly the occurrences of "]" are so encoded in the output
> from grops.
>
> How it gets there, however, is another question. It is already
> present in the ditroff output from troff (as I have verified
> myself with groff-1.18.1). I.e. using
>
> troff -Tps -mom ... | less
Funny. The same command line on my system produces clean ditroff
output (i.e. no anomalous ]'s ).
> There is a bunch of stuff involving ".tr" at ".MAC CAPS END"
> in the mom macro file. Maybe this is the source of the problem,
> though I can't put my finger on it myself.
Can't see anything there. It's pretty straightforward. Nothing
that would account for just the letters ACEI being screwed up.
I'll pursue the line suggested by Alejandra, see what that turns
up.
--
Peter Schaffter
Author of _The Schumann Proof_ (RendezVous Press, Canada)
http://www.golden.net/~ptpi/theschumannproof.html