jaap@mcvax.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis) (03/31/85)
In article <384@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> mark@gargoyle.UUCP ( Turner) writes: > Apparently, in 1983 the -ms macros were revised to > include a .AM macro which, when placed at the head of > a file to be formatted by nroff/troff, allowed one to use > various new accents and characters. /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.s > on our 4.2 system contains the lines... Apparently, somebody in Berkeley thought it was a good idea to replace the /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.s with something completly different for what has been known before as ``the -ms'' [n]troff macros. All of the enhancement's will probably work perfect in Berkeley, but not with any other ``-ms'' package. Rename /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.s into ``-mBms'' (/usr/lib/tmac/tmac.Bms) for Berkeley (consider it Broken ms) and rename ``-mos'' to ``-ms''. Back to the problems with your accents (dyacritical marks). These things are always installation (better, output device) dependent, since the strings like \*<x> tend to produce a lot of local motions, only effective on certain types of output devices. So no general solution is available. Good luck anyway, Jaap.