Hi! I've been struggling for quite some time trying to get mom headers to display. What kills me is that I'm pretty sure this used to work, and only stopped working once I upgraded my machine, so I'm suspecting a change to the way mom works. But whether it's that or not, this isn't working. (groff, grops, and troff are all version 1.20.1.)
What happens is that I generate a postscript file, then convert that to a PDF, and I see the HEADER_RULE and the space reserved for a header, but no actual text in the header itself. You can see the results at http://www.rinkworks.com/bad_headers.ps and http://www.rinkworks.com/bad_headers.pdf. If you look at pages 2-4, you'll see the header rules, with the recto/verso margins correctly observed. But no actual text. Here is the groff source: .TITLE "My Title" .AUTHOR "Me" .PRINTSTYLE TYPESET .COPYSTYLE FINAL \# \# Margins. \# .T_MARGIN .75i .B_MARGIN .75i .L_MARGIN 1.0i .R_MARGIN .75i \# \# Don't use mom cover pages. \# .DOC_COVERS OFF .COVERS OFF .DOCHEADER OFF \# \# Don't use page numbers. \# .PAGENUM_HYPHENS OFF .PAGINATE OFF \# \# Alternate pages. \# .L_MARGIN 1.0i .R_MARGIN .75i .RECTO_VERSO .HEADER_RECTO LEFT "RECTO HEADER" .HEADER_VERSO LEFT "VERSO HEADER" .HEADER_SIZE -2 \# \# Margins for body. \# .HEADER_MARGIN .75i-12p .T_MARGIN .75i-12p+3P .FOOTER_MARGIN 0 \# \# Let's roll. \# .HEADERS .START blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah .NEWPAGE blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah .NEWPAGE blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah .NEWPAGE blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah Does anybody have any idea what's going on here? If it helps, here are my commands for generating the postscript and PDF files: groff -U -Ww -p -mwww -mom < bad_headers.t > bad_headers.ps /usr/bin/ps2pdf13 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode -dMaxInlineImageSize=50000000 - - < bad_headers.ps > bad_headers.pdf Thanks in advance for any assistance you can offer! In particular, my forehead will appreciate not being banged into walls any more. -- Sam.
