Hi, My first ever lines of groff, output as default postscript, do render - partially.
$ groff --version GNU groff version 1.22.4 $ more /tmp/sample.groff This is .I "italic stuff" , I hope. $ groff -ms /tmp/sample.groff > /tmp/sample.ps troff: fatal error: can't find macro file s OK, let's skip the macro library, and rely only on basic troff stuff. That should help me get the hang of things at a simpler level, anyhow. $ groff /tmp/sample.groff > /tmp/sample.ps $ evince /tmp/sample.ps That displays: This is I hope in the default 10p. But where the dickens did the italic line vanish to? (Adding a ".B xxx" line merely replicates the vanishing trick.) Prepending: .ps 40 .PP did quadruple the font size, so my input isn't all wrong. (This could be useful, yet. ;)