Re: [9fans] slides ...

2025-03-18 Thread Steve Simon
i used foils, a venerable package for plan9 presentations: http://www.quintile.net/pkg/foils.tbz i rather liked the look but perhaps it is not to your taste: http://www.quintile.net/papers/9win-foils.pdf -Steve -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans

Re: [9fans] slides ...

2025-03-18 Thread sirjofri via 9fans
Hi, I built a small macro package some time ago for slides. It was mostly about setting the layout to some 4:3 format and adding a few macros for headings and stuff. Other than that, you can do a lot already with pure troff as well as ms. I wanted to look if I ever uploaded it to shithub, but I

Re: [9fans] slides ...

2025-03-18 Thread Anthony Sorace
I haven't seen them used since I worked at the Labs, but Plan 9 ships with tmac.v. We don't have a man page for it, but on a cursory inspection it seems to be roughly what's descried here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.2?topic=t-troff-command#troff__mvmacro > On Mar 18, 2025, at 0

[9fans] 9front cwfs repair

2025-03-18 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
I had an untimely and unfortunate power outage after installing 9front on a qemu/qcow (v3) disk. It is not a huge issue to rebuild, but I'm curious as to what the problem is (see attached) and how it might be fixed on real hardware. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink

[9fans] finally found the "imake rhyme with mistake" paper

2025-03-18 Thread ron minnich
I went looking for this many years ago, and found my own request on 9fans (!!), which Andrey answered by pointing me to "going for baroque", another classic. But this paper had eluded me. No longer. https://archive.org/details/login_jan94/page/n31/mode/2up?q=imake "I said, in a review I wrote for

Re: [9fans] Etiquette question

2025-03-18 Thread ron minnich
you can reach out to me, I'm happy to help. On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 9:19 AM Matt Wilbur wrote: > If someone has posted here to the mailing list, and I’d like to contact > them directly (because it seems more sensible than a message to the list), > is it bad form to do so? I feel like it would b

Re: [9fans] slides ...

2025-03-18 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
ron minnich wrote in : |It's been a while ... my iwp9 paper is all troff, I'd like to use troff for |slides, looking for some hints. I have a gpresent git repo for later looking at (but has not happend in eight years now): DESCRIPTION gpresent is a package for making presentations with

[9fans] Etiquette question

2025-03-18 Thread Matt Wilbur
If someone has posted here to the mailing list, and I’d like to contact them directly (because it seems more sensible than a message to the list), is it bad form to do so? I feel like it would be. It is with regards to u-root Matt -- 9fans: 9fans Permalin

[9fans] slides ...

2025-03-18 Thread ron minnich
It's been a while ... my iwp9 paper is all troff, I'd like to use troff for slides, looking for some hints. thanks -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T90e001e953f15e20-M0113d80858985532b0c6194c Delivery options: https://9fan