arnold(a)skeeve.com scripsit: I changed the line terminators to LFs and removed the undefined .TM macro in line 3 of post.tm. I then got these errors from troff: post.tm:116: macro error: unknown reference type `5' post.tm:208: macro error: unknown reference type `5' Dr. Google can provide no explanation of these. Lines 116 and 208 (or 117 and 209 of the original source) are ordinary lines of text with no special controls. Then I get the following error from ps2pdf: Error: /undefined in x Operand stack: Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1910 1 3 %oparray_pop 1909 1 3 %oparray_pop 1893 1 3 %oparray_pop 1787 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1171/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:77/200(L)-- Current allocation mode is local GPL Ghostscript 9.06: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 The resulting PDF contains a single blank page. I'm using groff 1.21 and GPL Ghostscript 9.06. -- John Cowan cowan(a)ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me. I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider. --Bilbo to Smaug

Le 15/02/2013 12:59, Cyrille Lefevre a écrit : <snip> also, as someone on the list did me, the output was incomplete ! first of, forgot to say that DWB is missing refer, so I use the GNU one. after some investigations, I found that DWB pic eat a great part of the initial document. the use of GNU pic -n solve the problem. refer may be used w/ or w/o the -e option, I prefer w/o. the final commands are : export DWBHOME=/opt/dwb ln -s CW $DWBHOME/lib/font/devpost/PO dos2unix < post.tm | refer | pic -n | /opt/dwb/bin/troff -ms | /opt/dwb/bin/dpost | tee post.ps | ps2pdf - post.pdf using DWB, the AT&T Bell Labs logo looks perfect ;^) http://cyrillelefevre.free.fr/tmp/post.ps http://cyrillelefevre.free.fr/tmp/post.pdf http://cyrillelefevre.free.fr/tmp/post-e.ps http://cyrillelefevre.free.fr/tmp/post-e.pdf Regards, Cyrille Lefevre -- mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre-lists@laposte.net