From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ronald Natalie) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 17:09:26 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] [Groff] It is time to modernise "groff" In-Reply-To: <8d29b01ec8813a2fdb56db781095043db1673bc2@webmail.yaccman.com> References: <8d29b01ec8813a2fdb56db781095043db1673bc2@webmail.yaccman.com> Message-ID: <1951558B-CEB4-4FA8-B1C3-AF4C4CC5A4E2@ronnatalie.com> > On Sep 5, 2017, at 11:06 PM, Steve Johnson wrote: > > One day, I was attempting to print out a one-page document. I ran troff piped into the phototypesetter and got out my roll of paper and fed it into the developer. Out the other end came a page with only one line on it (beautifully typeset): "cannot open input file xxx" A number of others had similar experiences, and stderr was born… I hear you. Postscript lacked the concept as well. I remember spending bucks on a phototypesetter run just to find an error message as the only thing on print run. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: