Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:53:36 09/04/02
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On September 04, 2002 at 21:35:41, Keith Evans wrote: >On September 04, 2002 at 21:12:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On September 04, 2002 at 19:23:01, Keith Evans wrote: >> >>>On September 04, 2002 at 15:22:38, Omid David wrote: >>> >>>>http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~davoudo/dts.txt >>>> >>>>I'll try to make a better PDF or PS version of it shortly. >>>> >>>>Omid. >>>> >>>>* Thanks to Dr. Hyatt for providing the file. >>> >>>Something like: >>> >>>groff -ms -t -e -Tps dts.txt > dts.ps ; ps2pdf >> >> >> >>No.. try this: >> >> >>tbl dts.txt | groff -me > dts.ps >> >>There is a bit of table formatting in the paper and running it thru tbl >>will format things much better... >> >> > >The "-t" is suppossed to run tbl. Most of the tables come out ok, but some >entries don't come out right. I've had problems with groff in the past, so I'm >used to moving over to my Solaris box to run it. (Even the simple RFC troff >format has problems on my Linux box.) > Thanks. I don't keep up with all the groff options. I have used troff/groff for 20 years now and have been used to using tbl and piping it. Old dogs and new tricks.. :) >BTW - I tried your command line and the tables still didn't come out right. > >I'm running version 1.15 of GNU troff, GNU tbl,... on our Linux boxes. I'm not >particularly motivated to upgrade since it's very rare that I need to use them, >and since I have my trusty Solaris box handy. No explanation for that. They pop out fine on my redhat 7.2 laptop. I use gv to view 'em and the tables look fine, although they end up on three separate pages at the end. > >I'm not sure if using the ms macros versus the me macros made much difference. >If the pdf file doesn't look correct to you, then I could regenerate it. > >Regards, >Keith > >> >> >> >> >>> >>>This should work on an appropriately configured GNU/Linux box. I may have a >>>buggy version of groff because a couple of the table entries get messed up on my >>>machine. (There must be some type of conspiracy with these table entries ;-) The >>>troff source looks ok to me though. >>> >>>On my Solaris box: >>> >>>tbl dts.txt | eqn | troff -ms -Tpost > dts.ps1 >>>/usr/lib/lp/postscript/dpost dts.ps1 > dts.ps >>> >>>ps2pdf dts.ps >>> >>>Produces something that looks OK. >>> >>>Regards, >>>Keith
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