All,
So... I've moved on from v7 to 2.11bsd - shucks, vi and tar and
co. just work there and everything else seems to be similar enough
for what I'm interested in anyway. So yay, I won't be pestering
y'all about vi anymore :). One the other hand, now I'm interested
in printing the docs.
2.11bsd comes with docs in, of all places, /usr/doc. In there are
makefiles for making the docs - ok, make nroff will make ascii
docs, and troff will make troff? docs using Ossana's 'original'
troff. So, after adding -t to it so it didn't complain about
'typesetter busy', I got no errors. I mounted a tape, tar'ed my
.out file and untar'ed it on my macbook (did it for the nroff and
troff output). Then I hit the first snag, groff -Tps -ms troff.out
> whatever.ps resulted in cannot adjust line and cannot break
line errors and groff -Tps -ms nroff.out
> whatever.ps resulted in a bunch of double vision. I seem to
recall doing this in v6 and it working ok (at least for nroff).
My questions:
1. Is there a troff to postcript conversion utility present in a
stock 2.11 system (or even patch level 4xx system)?
2. Is there a way to build postscript directly on the system?
3. Is there an alternative modern way to get to ps or pdf output
from the nroff/troff that 2.11 has?
I'm still digging into the nroff stuff as that may be just minor
diffs between ancient nroff macros and "modern" macros or even
just errors (.sp -2 rather than .sp or .sp -1, .in -2 instead of
.in +2), etc. Although, the files display ok in 2.11bsd using
nroff -ms nroff.out...
Thanks,
Will
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