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@@ -2,6 +2,28 @@ This file describes various problems that have been encountered in compiling, installing and running groff. Suggestions for additions or other improvements to this file are welcome. +* My document says that the current year is 19100, not 2000. + +In groff, as in traditional troff, the yr number register yields the +year minus 1900. Unfortunately, there is a longstanding bug in the +Troff User's Manual <http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/54.ps.gz>, +which incorrectly claims that yr is the last two digits of the year. +This claim was never true of either Unix troff or of groff. + +If your text looks like this: + + .\" Wrong: + This document was formatted in 19\n(yr. + +you can correct it as follows: + + This document was formatted in \n[year]. + +or, if you want to be portable to older troff versions, as follows: + + .nr y4 1900+\n(yr + This document was formatted in \n(y4. + * I get lots of `numeric overflow' error messages whenever I run groff; I compiled groff with AT&T C++ 2.0 with an ANSI C compiler. |