ditroff and me macros

[Chris Elvin]

Hi there,

I have just installed 'troff' from the AT+T documentors workbench to
get an apple laserwriter IINTX up as a high quality print device and
have a problem with the 'me' and 'ms' macros.

The situation is:
troff on a VAX11-750 with 'tpscript' converting the output to
postscript. (tpscript is a PD translator written at Uni of NSW and Uni
of Queensland Australia).  Laser printer is driven by an in-house
written filter for 'lpd'.

I keep getting errors from 'tpscript' saying that fonts are not loaded
and thus certain print effects do not work properly. I do not know
whether the problem lies in 'tpscript' or in 'troff', but suspect that
modifying 'tpscript' may solve the problem.

Has anybody out there had similar problems or any suggestions to make.
Please reply to me direct since I do not receive info-unix and I will
summarize later.

	Thanx in advance.

	C.
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