[gnu.utils.bug] indent -troff bug

kayvan@mrspoc.transact.com (Kayvan Sylvan) (02/14/90)

I recently ported GNU indent version 1.1 to Xenix 386.

It works great and is very fast. The troff-mode output produces
illegible code when processed by troff.

Does anyone use the troff output of indent? Is there anything special
I need to do?

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djm@MORDOR.ENG.UMD.EDU (David J. MacKenzie) (02/14/90)

> I recently ported GNU indent version 1.1 to Xenix 386.

> It works great and is very fast. The troff-mode output produces
> illegible code when processed by troff.

> Does anyone use the troff output of indent? Is there anything special
> I need to do?

Indent's -troff mode needs a macro file, tmac.indent, which is not
distributed with the GNU indent.  I tried the BSD4.3 indent -troff
with that macro package several years ago, and the output was
formatted quite differently from the way it was formatted without the
-indent option (i.e., the way I wanted it to look), and in my opinion
it was rather ugly.  So I gave up on it.  My guess is that indent
-troff needs a lot of work to be usable.

kingdon@AI.MIT.EDU (Jim Kingdon) (02/14/90)

I'm told that indent -troff is broken (and was in the BSD4.3-tahoe
version of indent that I started with when I made the gnu changes to
indent), so I've removed it from the documentation.