infinite page length?
I don't understand how man(1) suppresses pagination. Is there any simple trick to viewing -ms documents in nroff without page boundaries? I didn't find it in the papersize documentation. Proof that I read it, I found a typo: The value of the papersize file can be overrideen by looking in order I thought there might be a "fake" paper size, like length 0 or something, that indicates no pagination is needed. I guess it has something to do with the macro set and the target device, since mdoc is unpaginated in the terminal and paginated as PDF. It would be nice to have the same available with ms. Many thanks. --jkl
Re: Potential enhancements to install-font.sh from https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/bin/install-font.sh
On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 17:45:46 -0400 Peter Schaffter wrote: > > Also, wouldn't this script be useful to include in the groff > > distribution? > > I'm inclined to think so, however it contains non-portable bashisms > and so might not be appropriate. The script was a quick and dirty > solution to font installation. That's the best and biggest Q&D shell script I've ever seen. > Something similar but more robust and not reliant on a particular > shell interpreter would be better. I just took a look, Peter, because I have some experience writing Bourne shell scripts. I don't see anything bash-specific, just looking over it. You might just change #!/bin/bash to #!/bin/sh; I think it will run pretty well, maybe perfectly. If I were publishing it, I'd remove the VT100 escape codes, and format my if statements without semicolons: if [ foo ] then bar fi because that's what Steven Bourne intended. ;-) If you decide to add it to the distibution, I'll write the man page. --jkl
Re: infinite page length?
At 2020-04-29T17:04:27-0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
> I don't understand how man(1) suppresses pagination. Is there any
> simple trick to viewing -ms documents in nroff without page
> boundaries?
Hi James!
I believe the answer is in an-old.tmac:
.\" We redefine .ne to avoid page breaks if cR is set; instead, the page
.\" length is increased to the necessary amount (this is needed for
.\" tables).
.\"
.\" Similarly, we redefine .bp if cR is set, adjusting the page length
.\" to the current position so that no empty lines are inserted.
.if \n[cR] \{\
. de1 ne
.ie \\n[.$] \
. nr an-ne (v;\\$*)
.el \
. nr an-ne 1v
.if (\\n[an-ne] >= \\n[.t]) \
. pl +(\\n[an-ne]u - \\n[.t]u + 1v)
. .
.
. rn bp an-bp
. de1 bp
.br
.pl \\n[nl]u
.an-bp \\$*
. .
.\}
>
> I didn't find it in the papersize documentation. Proof that I read
> it, I found a typo:
>
> The value of the papersize file can be overrideen
> by looking in order
You appear to be referring to the papersize(5) man page. On my
Debian-based system, this comes from a package called "libpaper1".
> I thought there might be a "fake" paper size, like length 0 or
> something, that indicates no pagination is needed.
That would be handy, but I have no idea if this could be added to the
core of the roff language without breaking things.
Individual macro packages can obviously hack round it.
The tbl preprocessor also needs a hack for tables of unbounded length;
see https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57665 .
> I guess it has something to do with the macro set and the target
> device, since mdoc is unpaginated in the terminal and paginated as
> PDF. It would be nice to have the same available with ms.
Maybe someone else on the list has an idea how practical this might be;
I don't.
Regards,
Branden
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Re: Potential enhancements to install-font.sh from https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/bin/install-font.sh
At 2020-04-29T17:04:31-0400, James K. Lowden wrote: > If I were publishing it, I'd remove the VT100 escape codes, and format > my if statements without semicolons: > > if [ foo ] > then > bar > fi > > because that's what Steven Bourne intended. ;-) I second the Bourne "brace style"; after many years resisting it I finally gave in. There's nothing wrong with SGR escapes as long as uses them portably. You don't even have to learn the details of the escape codes with their inscrutable syntax an unmemorizable numerical codes. You can see an example here, in lines 42-118: https://github.com/seL4/seL4_tools/blob/master/cmake-tool/griddle Regards, Branden signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Potential enhancements to install-font.sh from https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/bin/install-font.sh
> You don't even have to learn the details of the escape codes with their > inscrutable syntax an unmemorizable numerical codes. I'm sorry, \x1B[4;1mwhat?\x1B[24;21m On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 at 07:55, G. Branden Robinson < g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > At 2020-04-29T17:04:31-0400, James K. Lowden wrote: > > If I were publishing it, I'd remove the VT100 escape codes, and format > > my if statements without semicolons: > > > > if [ foo ] > > then > > bar > > fi > > > > because that's what Steven Bourne intended. ;-) > > I second the Bourne "brace style"; after many years resisting it I > finally gave in. > > There's nothing wrong with SGR escapes as long as uses them portably. > You don't even have to learn the details of the escape codes with their > inscrutable syntax an unmemorizable numerical codes. > > You can see an example here, in lines 42-118: > > https://github.com/seL4/seL4_tools/blob/master/cmake-tool/griddle > > Regards, > Branden >
