troff2lj problems

[John F. Haugh II]

In article <363 at uwslh.UUCP> lishka at uwslh.UUCP (Fish-Guts) writes:
>In article <2642 at ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> cck at deneb.ucdavis.edu.UUCP (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
>>Has anyone brought this up under SCO 286 Unix?  I compiled it in
>>several flavors and got an overstruck mess down the left side of
>>the paper.
>
>     I had a problem with the text coming out with bad margins on the
>left side and some overstruck characters on the right side.  This
>turned out not to be a problem with troff2lj, but rather it was bad
>troff macro package definitions, particularily -man.

the fixes i've had to use in the past have been redownloading the
soft fonts, or making sure i am using the old C/A/T version of troff.
plexus, in their transfinite wisdom, renamed the old troff to `otroff'
and the new device independent troff has become `troff'.  a quick
check of programs SCO includes with their text processing system
reveals that only one troff is included.  and if murphy has his way,
it is the WRONG one ;-)
>happening was that (in the macro package) .ll was being used to change
>the default line length to be longer, but .po (page offset, i.e. left
>margin) was *not* being changed to reflect this.  This really messed
>up troff. 
>
>     Like I said, this may or may not help.
>
>>E H. Kinmonth Hist. Dept.  Univ. of Ca., Davis Davis, Ca. 95616
>>916-752-1636/0776
>
>						-Chris
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