Troff files are not formatted

[Walt Meier]

> Walt Meier wrote:

> >
> > I looked at /etc/cups/mime.convs and /etc/cups/mime.types, and there is no
> > entry in either of those files for mime type text/troff.  Is there supposed to be one?
>
> No, we don't include one, mainly because there is no way to determine
> which macro package to use.
>
> That said, it would be trivial to add one to your local installation -
> just add troff.types and troff.convs files to the /etc/cups directory,
> and create a filter script that runs groff...
>
> man mime.types
> man mime.convs
> man filter

> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
> Internet Printing and Publishing Software        http://www.easysw.com

Thank you for the explanation.   I couldn't make sense out of  mime.types
even after reading the manual page.  I'm sure it's trivial for someone familiar
with the contents of that file, but it's not trivial for me.  Could the standard
distribution come with commented out entries for troff files? I would have found it easier to edit existing entries than creating a new one.

For me, it was a lot easier to create a front end to "lpr" that calls 'file -i' to identify a troff document, and then calls groff if it finds one.   That's working, but I don't like having to modify files that come with the distribution.  Maybe I'm the only person left who has troff documents laying around and the only person left who cares
about them, but it doesn't seem like printing out a troff document should require the user to have to manually modify the print server.

Walt Meier