Re: [Groff] help debug pdfmark, pdfroff, PSPIC document

[Anton Shterenlikht]

>On 26/02/16 15:56, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>> I've a document that is built with pdfroff.
>> I use mspdf macro package and also PSPIC.
>> 
>> This results in a document with 3 extra
>> pages after the cover page, where all PostScript
>> files, mentioned in PSPIC requests are shown:
>> 
>> https://sourceforge.net/p/coarrays/svn/HEAD/tree/head/doc/doc.pdf
>> 
>> All my sources are at:
>> 
>> https://sourceforge.net/p/coarrays/svn/HEAD/tree/head/doc/
>> 
>> Is my cover.ps wrong?
>> Or perhaps pdfmark is incompatible with pspic?
>
>More likely PSPIC doesn't play nicely with pdfroff's crude, and
>extremely hackish method of relocating tables of content, which have
>been generated for output by ms' .TC; (I'm thinking, specifically, that
>PSPIC may emit output to the "paper", even when the typesetter is in
>"pen up" mode, where pdfroff expects nothing but entirely blank pages,
>which it suppresses, preceding the table of contents itself).
>
>What happens if you run pdfroff with its --no-toc-relocation option?

Keith, thank you for taking the time.
With --no-toc-relocation the duplicate images are gone:

http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/doc.pdf

This is much better, thank you.

I was thinking of using --emit-ps, and then
relocating TOC & references with psselect, but
the results are weird. It seems something is
wrong with page numbering
in the PostScript file produced with --emit-ps:

http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/doc.ps

at least gv gets very confused with page down/page up,
and psselect results are unexpected.

Many thanks again!

Anton