On 19-Jul-07 19:16:11, Pietro Gagliardi wrote: > Thanks, but I figured it out a few days ago. Do you know about > the .DS and .DE macros? I put .DF instead of .DE! It gets > confusing... Anyways, I really think groff should have a less > cryptic error than "diversion open" - perhaps "unfinished .DS".
Glad you found the answer! certainly your suggestion would make it more explicit where you should think of looking, and that could be helpful; but (as was implicit in my reply) once you get used to it you have a pretty good idea of what's wrong! But -- to go off on a tangent (which does have contact with your query at the point of departure) for the benefit of whoever monitors the performance of GNU's lists: I received your initial query 2 hours ago: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:49:26 +0100 over 40 hours after you posted it: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:30:58 -0700 Until you said "I figured it out a few days ago" I didn't think of looking at your date of posting. Now that I look at the headers, I find the following sequence: Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IBb40-0001nl-SQ for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:49:24 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IAzJe-0005EN-Fa for [email protected]; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:31:02 -0400 So lists.gnu.org has sat on it for nearly two days! Any known problems with lists.gnu.org, anyone? Best wishes to all, ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 19-Jul-07 Time: 22:00:44 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
