Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:26:42 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: groff Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812302135440.335-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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I'd like some advice here. I want everyone else to be able to use the same groff upgrades I've been using in my own academic papers, but I'm uncertain how to go about doing it. Let me give you the background first, then the question. mm refers to the memorandum macros (groff/mm), which are used in conjunction with groff for papers. There are other macro sets, like ms and man, but this deals with mm. mm is not written by James Clark, but he includes a version with groff, by agreement with mm's author. The version included with groff is 1.27, but the latest version of mm that I've been using is 1.29. The difference (the main difference that you'd notice) between 1.27 and 1.29 is with tables of contents that run more than one page. mm version 1.27 massacres them, adding a page with a single line in it, and it turns out unuseable TOCs. The fix in version 1.29 seems really well done, and believe me, I've exercised it pretty hard. (I could include a sample of code that makes this happen, but since it only occurs with papers with a TOC larger than one page, it'd have to be a somewhat large example. Write me if you want to see this, I can certainly oblige). pst has left dire instructions in the contrib/groff directory on how to upgrade groff, but he doesn't seem to have contemplated someone only wanting to upgrade one subdirectory (it's a one for one replacement of maybe 8 files). The changes are pretty large, so the diff would be bigger, I think, than just doing a remove on each old file, then an add on each new one, but this seems to go against those instruction left by pst. I asked here once before on this, more than 6 months ago, when I first wanted to make the change. I got no clear response. I know how to do an import, but when I've done that in the past, it's always been an import to a place that was currently empty; mm is there now, I want to replace it with mm. Could someone give me a hint as what a technically, and stylistically correct way to do this is? (After, please, taking a look at pst's groff/FREEBSD-upgrade file). (BTW, don't tell me to upgrade groff, it still has the old mm in it, and we've already got a recent version of groff in the tree. Groff doesn't need upgrading, just groff/mm). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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