murphy@eric.mpr.ca (Gail Murphy) (12/09/89)
We currently have Xtroff working on a Sun in-house. We would like to move this onto DECwindows (since most of us using troff are under Ultrix). There seems to be some problems with fonts, however. Even after re-installing the fonts (and I believe) re-compiling them, xtroff crashes the DECWindows X server. I haven't been doing the installation myself, so I may be fuzzy on some of the details. What I am interested in, though, is if anybody has had any success in bringing Xtroff up under DECwindows and what was involved to do that. Thanks in advance, Gail Murphy | murphy@joplin.mpr.ca Microtel Pacific Research | ubc-cs!eric!murphy@UUNET.UU.NET 8999 Nelson Way, Burnaby, BC | murphy%joplin.mpr.ca@relay.ubc.ca Canada, V5A 4B5, (604) 293-5462 | ...!ubc-vision!joplin.mpr.ca!murphy
moraes@CS.TORONTO.EDU (Mark Moraes) (12/09/89)
In comp.windows.x you write: >There seems to be some problems with fonts, however. Even after re-installing >the fonts (and I believe) re-compiling them, xtroff crashes the DECWindows >X server. I haven't been doing the installation myself, so I may be >fuzzy on some of the details. >What I am interested in, though, is if anybody has had any success in bringing >Xtroff up under DECwindows and what was involved to do that. Make sure you compile the fonts with DEC's bdftosnf, not with the MIT one. (Apparently, DEC seems to have changed the snf format slightly -- our Vaxen running MIT R3 and DS3100s running DECWindows can't share the same snf. sigh) xtroff does compile and work on the DS3100s we have (Ultrix 3.1) using the includes and libraries (Xaw, Xmu, Xt, X11) compiled and installed from the MIT R3 distribution, and the DEC bdftosnf and server. Try xlsfonts 'devpsc*' to see if the fonts actually exist, if they do, try xfd to display them. If these two steps don't work, er, well, um. (Xtroff users might be relieved to note that the version on the R4 tape won't require this font munging, thanks to some nifty code from Dave Cahlander)