Ah now we know what that .cw means :-). I'm glad it wasn't some dark undocumented force. Happy weekend everybody. Wim Stockman
Op zo 18 jul. 2021 om 15:19 schreef John Gardner <gardnerjo...@gmail.com>: > > > > John's a sneaky devil. I've never seen the .cw request used in anger > > before > > > I'm sorry, I meant to write `.cs`, which was superfluous anyway (since I > already set line-length to 1n, which forced lines to be wrapped). I was in > a rush and hastily repurposing code from an earlier snippet > < > https://github.com/Alhadis/Mono/blob/165718cdf14c26345ab76633a883fdff65627170/tmac/mono/strings.tmac#L10-L27 > >, > one that counted the number of characters in a string in a fully portable > fashion. In hindsight, I should've disabled hyphenation as well… apologies > for that. > > As for the thread, I don't feel qualified enough about TeX to offer an > insightful opinion, as my experience with TeX is limited to one or two > documents—neither of which were fun to produce. > > On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 at 23:36, Oliver Corff <oliver.co...@email.de> wrote: > > > When I followed the first reddit link a few days ago for the first time, > > I read a few contributions and thought that it could be a challenge to > > reconcile the discrepancy between the internalized knowledge about > > things related to the "black art" (typesetting, that is) generally > > prevalent in this community here, not to speak of all the *roff details, > > on one hand, and the knowledge level present among the reddit readers on > > the other hand, as it came to my mind that any posting intended to be > > enlightening might unnecessarily appear highbrow and scare away > > potential readers who otherwise could develop an interest in things > *roff. > > > > One question was similar to: "Are there any documents typeset in *roff > > which I can find in the net?", while a different posting already > > mentioned all the books typeset in *roff. But perhaps even Kernighan & > > Ritchie's "Programming in C" seems to be a thing of the remote past > > (given that it was published in 1988). I utterly fail to relate to that > > feeling, but is it really possible that one considers a book written > > before one was presumably born as outdated per se? (I assume the age > > median in the reddit group to be lower than here, but I may be wrong.) > > > > Yet, something like a gentle introduction about the fundamental > > differences, strengths and weaknesses of markup vs. typesetting vs. text > > processing would be a good idea. But, so many of these gentle > > introductions have already been written, and with so many platforms > > emerging (I assume the intersection set between gnu mailing list users, > > usenet group readers and reddit visitors is small, but was recently > > successfully demonstrated to be non-empty) it is pretty probable that > > every new "generic" and "gentle introduction" will miss its target > > audience if it is not published where its readers spend their time. > > > > On the other hand, the second, recent reddit link posted here > > demonstrates quite a level of insight among the contributors, compared > > to the other one. > > > > The only thing that can be done is to post a list of pointers to the > > groff site, to this mailing list (after all, it can be browsed in its > > entirety without registering anywhere --- also soon becoming a thing of > > the past, I am afraid), and perhaps to introductory articles in > Wikipedia. > > > > The youtube postings were mentioned, too; that seems to be yet another > > clientele. Be it so --- good to have! > > > > Best regards, > > > > Oliver. > > > > > > On 16/07/2021 14:36, John Ankarström wrote: > > > Den 2021-07-16 kl. 03:50 skrev Nate Bargmann: > > >> I learned there is a Groff Reddit as well: > > >> > > >> https://www.reddit.com/r/groff/ > > >> > > >> It seems to have quite a bit of activity which is fantastic. > > > I was just about to write this. I am relatively active on /r/groff (as > > > user quote-only-eee) and it would be great to see some more activity on > > > it, if there are other people here who have Reddit accounts. It is an > > > obvious place for beginners to ask questions. > > > > > > Perhaps I should contact moderator HexDSL about putting up information > > > about the groff mailing list on the subreddit, as many people who post > > > there presumably don't know about it. > > > > > > > > > > >
