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From: cyrus@hi.UUCP (Tait Cyrus)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: troff ms macros and eroff
Message-ID: <14329@hi.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 29-Aug-87 22:21:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: hi.14329
Posted: Sat Aug 29 22:21:03 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 30-Aug-87 10:21:34 EDT
Organization: U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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Keywords: troff, ms, eroff


   We just purchased Elan's Eroff with the postscript driver.  I have
a lot, and I mean A LOT, of roff documents which use the 'ms' macro
package.  Eroff does not come with any knowledge of the 'ms' macros.
My problem is that when I try to print something, using the already
existing 'ms' macro files, the printer returns an error of:
   %%[ Error: invalidrestore; OffendingCommand: restore ]%%
   %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
Of the pages that do get printed, the point sizes are ALL screwed up.

   Has anyone been able to get the 'ms' macros to work with eroff?
Note: I am specifically using the thesis mode option (.TM) in 'ms'.

Does anyone have any suggestions, comments, ideas?

Thanks in advance,

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