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Subject: nroff problems
Message-ID: <774@PSUECLB>
Date: Tue, 28-Jul-87 16:54:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: PSUECLB.774
Posted: Tue Jul 28 16:54:00 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 31-Jul-87 02:31:14 EDT
Organization: Engineering Computer Lab, Pennsylvania State University
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        I'm a new UNIX user, as is everyone else here, so we are
having some troubles with our new Harris HCX-7 running UNIX.  My
question involves nroff.
        I'm trying to print a Spice user's manual, which happens to
be an nroff document.  The problem is that nroff doesn't put form
feed characters in.  I tried every terminal option (with the -T option),
but none of them worked.  I tried defining a macro which inserted FF
at the end of each page, but nroff appears to have filtered them out.
How do I do it?  Do I need to make a new terminal definition file?
If so, I don't know how, and can't find it in any of the documentation
we have.  We looked at the nroff source code, but no one here knows
C well enough to extract anything useful from it.
        Also, one of the appendicies is full of equations, and uses the
eqn program.  With eqn, I get zillions of "Floating Exception" errors,
and I can't figure out why.  I tried neqn, and it worked.  But, the
escape sequences it put in to do upward and downward cursor movements
don't work on our laser printer (DEC ln03), or line printer (DEC lg02).
I'm stumped.
        Help!!! Thanks in advance.