Re: [Groff] Firt letters overlapping with MOM

[Blake McBride]

Thanks.  That does fix the problem.

Why wouldn't this (perhaps with a condition) not be in mom by default?


On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Deri James <address@hidden>wrote:

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> On Saturday 05 Oct 2013 12:34:33 Blake McBride wrote:
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> > Greetings,
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> > I installed 1.22.2 and current on my Mac with:
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> >         ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
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> >         make
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> >         sudo make install
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> > (My Mac has GCC 4.2.1)
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> > t.mom contains:
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> > Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
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> > Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
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> > I tried:
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> > groff -T pdf t.mom >t.pdf
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> > and it worked perfectly.  But when I do:
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> > groff -T pdf -mom t.mom >t.pdf
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> > The "o" and "w" of the first word only partially overlap.  Interestingly,
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> > the second copy of the sentence displays perfectly.
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> > As I stated, I tried 1.22.2 and the current snapshot.  Same result.  I
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> > try to check to be sure there isn't another copy in /usr/local or
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> > /opt/local.
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> > I have no idea what to do, or why the -mom would have this effect.
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> >  Appreciate any help!
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> > Blake McBride
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> Hi BlaKe,
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> One fix for this is to locate the two lines in om.tmac which start:-
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> .if '\\*[.T]'pdf' \X'papersize=
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> and add "\c" to the very end of both lines.
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> Cheers
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> Deri
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