smadi@rlgvax.UUCP (Smadi Paradise) (02/15/89)
Here is a summary of some common problems people had with pps. 1. Flex I am told that flex (a faster lex) would not accept two Kleen stars in the same regular expression if one of them is in right context. Cure: use lex(1), or alternatively modify the source to ``gulp'' the left context and then yyless() it. Effects: *.l 2. Spooler Some spoolers expect %%Page comments in their PostScript input. Mea culpe -- pps produces none, as it does not _know_ about page breaks. Cure: remove the ``PS-Adobe 1.0'' from the first line, leaving %! alone. This tells the spooler that pps does not strictly follow 1.0 . Effects: *.sh 3. Imagen I am told that some Imagen printers have smaller usable bounding box than bbox returns. When printing outside this box, paper may stick to the seperating mechanism. Cure: increase margins to about 72 points. Effects: *.pro 4. Usenet (?) Some sites complain about transmission errors in pps.pro Cure: drop me a line and I shall mail it. 5. Yacc The language-sensitive front-end for yacc(1) was not incuded in the orignal posting (it has never been beta-sited). Cure: if there is enough interest I shall post it here. Thanks to Dave Platt <coherent!dplatt> Dave Curry <riacs!davy> Kevin B. Kenny [the Arch-Traitor] <m.cs.uiuc.edu!kenny> Blair MacIntyre <watdragon.waterloo.edu!bmacintyre> for sharing these problems and solutions. -- On (a guest of uunet!rlgvax!smadi) Paradise