vim :hardcopy equivalent
Hi list, after years of doing my administrative letters with vim :hardcopy plus some settings[1], I'd like to move on to groffing them with identical look and be indepenent of the editor. So, typewriter look, significant whitespace, page number/total heading. Being new to groff and a bit lost in macro packages as well as the docs - how would I do that, or where has such been documented before? Greetings, Marcus [1]: https://mro.name/2022/brief-dina4.txt
Re: vim :hardcopy equivalent
to keep it simple I went without macros and figured out the commands from https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/groff.html without further help. For now I may go with https://mro.name/2024/brief-dina4.roff Having an automatic header line on subsequent pages would be a plus, but isn't worth to RTFM e2e. /Marcus
Re: vim :hardcopy equivalent
Good morning Branden, On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 13:28:04 -0500 "G. Branden Robinson" wrote: > The subsection/node "Page Location Traps" discusses how to do this and > offers a simple example of the setup and use of header and footer traps. frankly I am usually hesitant to engage with traps, but your nudge encouraged me to do so and it turned out quite fruitful. See https://mro.name/2024/brief-dina4.roff Thanks a lot! /Marcus P.S.: I wonder why there's a single word on the page's last line, but I can live with that.
Re: PDF as default output device
Hi Douglas, On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 11:33:53 -0400 Douglas McIlroy wrote: > So I'd welcome palliative advice about my worries. I'm sorry to say that I share them. With a tool as widely deployed as groff, compatibility with legacy is huge, and breaking it should merit considerable benefits above convenient adoption and onboarding. What are they? Marcus
