2009/7/9 hiro <23h...@googlemail.com>:
> Perhaps we should use troff and just convert it to tex?
> Because I also hate to write/read tex.
>
I have an awk script to write latex in plain text, with a syntax
similar to markdown. It is an ad-hoc solution I am using to write my
thesis, but if you are i
Perhaps we should use troff and just convert it to tex?
Because I also hate to write/read tex.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Rudolf Sykora wrote:
> 2009/7/8 Russ Cox :
>> I assume you have a non-Plan 9 machine to play with.
>> It's worth trying Heirloom troff there to see if the boxes
>> are don
2009/7/8 Russ Cox :
> I assume you have a non-Plan 9 machine to play with.
> It's worth trying Heirloom troff there to see if the boxes
> are done better. They probably are.
as far as I see, they are not better.
> I need to fall back to the Plan 9 troff, because the low-level
> details seem to d
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Rudolf Sykora wrote:
> But now (from the answers to my questions about boxes, tables) I am
> becoming less enthusiastic. Can anybody comment on this? Do you think
> that troff is really dead?
Like most things in life, the answer is an emphatic, "it depends."
Weigh
I assume you have a non-Plan 9 machine to play with.
It's worth trying Heirloom troff there to see if the boxes
are done better. They probably are. It would be a big
integration effort to fit the Heirloom troff changes into the
Plan 9 troff changes. Maybe it is worth it; maybe not.
I like Heirl
2009/7/8 Russ Cox :
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Rudolf Sykora wrote:
>> can anybody tell me why whatever .ps about troff/eqn I print has
>> misplaced lines?
>> E.g. quite generally, lines that make up tables either don't touch, or
>> stick out somewhere...
>
> this is because tbl is using cha
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Rudolf Sykora wrote:
> can anybody tell me why whatever .ps about troff/eqn I print has
> misplaced lines?
> E.g. quite generally, lines that make up tables either don't touch, or
> stick out somewhere...
this is because tbl is using characters to draw lines.
it's n
> can anybody tell me why whatever .ps about troff/eqn I print has
> misplaced lines?
> E.g. quite generally, lines that make up tables either don't touch, or
> stick out somewhere...
does it look bad with proof? if so, this is generally
because of font problems. i cribbed this from someone
and
Hello everyone,
can anybody tell me why whatever .ps about troff/eqn I print has
misplaced lines?
E.g. quite generally, lines that make up tables either don't touch, or
stick out somewhere...
Also, should
.BX something
make a nice box around 'something' or not? Anywhere I look I see the
top line
