I think of myself as pretty proficient with troff, but I never get
diversions right.
One fairly useless task I set for myself was to write a smart quote
macro. By that I mean that I want the macro to put the quoted text
into a diversion, check how many lines the quote would be when
formatted as a
[acme.dump bin/ devel/ doc/ guide lib/ sys/ text/ tmp/]
Subject: eqn and unicode
I noticed that sometimes my troff-related questions don't
generate much interest. I hope they aren't considered bad
form, because I am curious about another thing.
If you write the eqn-word for a greek letter, "GAMMA
> On Thu May 28 19:07:48 EDT 2009, r...@swtch.com wrote:
>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Gregory Pavelcak
>> wrote:
>> > If you write the eqn-word for a greek letter, "GAMMA" for
>> > example; eqn passes the unicode character (the output of
>&g
erik,
You're reply and some reflection convinced me that my first
approach is just wrong. I don't understand the next-to-last
paragraph though. I tried creating gktbl and making the change
you suggest to text.c, and it seems to work. Why does
isalpharune() need changing?
Greg
> i'm pretty sure
I should probably just drop it because I reveal my ignorance
when I post, and erik is the only one who has shown any interest,
but ...
I guess what I want is for eqn to sort of immediately convert
GAMMA to Γ and then go about its business with Γ, as if it
never saw the word GAMMA, got it?
So, I w
Hilarious. Are the helmet and flame-retardant jumpsuit included?
On Jul 6, 2009, at 6:32 AM, mattmob...@proweb.co.uk wrote:
Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/Usb_steering_wheel.html
I can't help laughing at the thought of one of these wheels hooked
up to a plan 9 ma
Just noticed this
cpu% cat tmp/sorttest
2
7
2.1
2.1.4
2.1.1
cpu% sort tmp/sorttest
2
2.1
2.1.1
2.1.4
7
cpu% sort -u tmp/sorttest
2
2.1
2.1.1
2.1.4
7
cpu% sort -n tmp/sorttest
2
2.1
2.1.4
2.1.1
7
cpu% sort -n -u tmp/sorttest
2
2.1
7
cpu%
Greg
I think you and Richard are right. Looking at the man page,
the behavior is not unexpected. I mis-read what my own
experiment did and thought sort -n actually sorted 2.1.4
and 2.1.1. I guess it's more of a 4am-on-a-sleepless-night
problem than a sort problem.
Thanks.
Greg
Here's the summary for the window command in the man page.
window [ -m ] [ -r minx miny maxx maxy ] [ -dx n ] [ -dy n ]
[ -minx n ] [ -miny n ] [ -maxx n ] [ -maxy n ] [ -cd dir ]
[ -hide ] [ -scroll ] [ -noscroll ] [ cmd arg ... ]
If I do
window -r 200 200 10
Sorry for the self follow-up, but it did just occur
to me that a simple solution is to start a new instance
of rio within a window withe the boundaries I want,
then, obviously, all subsequent window-openings
will take place in there.
D'oh.
Greg
I know that this self-conversation is getting silly, but I thought
I would report that, as far as just starting a new rio, the winwatch
that I'm trying to keep uncovered doesn't show windows opened
in the new rio, sort of defeating the purpose. So, I guess I'm
back to the original question.
Now, I
Thanks Russ for the typically thoughtful and informative reply. You
are perhaps the most valuable resource on any mailing list anywhere.
There ought to be an award or something.
The reason I ask is that I missed that step the first time I tried to
set up the CPU/Auth server, but I've since
On Jul 26, 2008, at 3:10 PM, Russ Cox wrote:
You can test connectivity using aux/9pcon:
cpu% aux/9pcon -n tcp!web.mit.edu!9fs
aux/9pcon: dial: connection refused
cpu%
If it does connect (which I doubt)
Correct.
brain# aux/9pcon -n il!192.168.0.108!9fs
aux/9pcon: d
On Jul 27, 2008, at 10:55 AM, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
to recap, you can mount the fs from a pccpuf - with the root coming
from a local fs, i assume - but can't boot with the root coming from
fs.
Nope, I cannot mount the fs from my CPU server with a local root.
And, perhaps I should change th
After expending all this time and energy, it turns out I was just
getting the srv command wrong. And even after typing the command
about 1000 times, hoping it would work, it never occurred to me that
I should be using the port number. What a dope.
Thanks.
Greg
On Jul 27, 2008, at 12:48 PM
Obviously I've had time on my hands to play with computers this week.
I have a fossil on an 18G hard drive, which from what I've seen, is
probably a much larger fossil than I need. However, I wasn't planning
on changing it unless it's really trivially easy to do so. I also have
another 18G drive a
Sorry if this is a repost, but I haven't seen it show up on groups, so
I think I'm OK.
I recently asked about mirroring venti arenas and was told that mirroring
is generally a good idea. It
occurred to me that, although I know how to mirror my arenas, I'm not
clear on how to recover from hardware
This is a bit more mundane than recent discussions, but I
noticed that the ms macros contain this
.ie h .ll \\n(LLu
.el \{\
.ll 5.0i
.if n .if \\n(TN .ll 29
.if t .if \\n(TN .ll 3.5i \}
as part of .de TL. What is '.ie h'? I thought the only single character
I've been writing a paper using -ms macros and refer and refer seems
to work as advertised. Recently I decided I wanted to get references in
endnotes instead of footnotes, so I added some very simple macros,
like FS/FE, around a diversion, thus:
.de XS
.ev2
.da XA
.br
..
.de XE
.br
.di
.ev
..
Asi
Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Gregory Pavelcak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> I've been writing a paper using -ms macros and refer and refer seems
> to work as advertised. Recently I decided I wanted to get references in
> endnotes instead of footnotes, so I added some very simple
I usually try to avoid the "what happened to sources" email,
but what happened to sources? All I've been getting from
pull attempts for the past several days is
srv: dial tcp!sources.cs.bell-labs.com!9fs: connection refused
bind: /n/sources/plan9: '/n/sources/plan9' does not exist
servermount: bin
Hi,
I've been messing around with setting up a Ken's file server with old
hardware that's accumulated over the years.
Yesterday, I configured a file server with two IDE drives as ch0fh2. The
setup seemed to go OK, but one of the last things on the screen before it
brought the server up is in the
On a file-server related note, I almost feel committed to SCSI drives
because I have a nice Tekram controller. However all of my drives are so old
that I'm suspicious of them and buying new SCSI is expensive.
It looks like I could switch to SATA controller and drives for less money
than a couple
I didn't try recover, but since the config I really want is a partitioned
one like you suggest, and the errors I reported didn't make anyone
immediately think "dying hard drive"; I think I'll try getting your (Erik's)
fs from contrib.
I assume I can do something like this:
Put the two hard drives
Thanks Erik.
Yeah, the "f" device is just a consistent brain tic for me. Once upon a time
I thought for some reason that "f" always went with "c" unless you were
using a real jukebox, and now I can't seem to get rid of that
misapprehension when I write my configs.
I used "h2" because I intended t
I think that, if you're using -ms, the value probably gets reset.
Try setting VS too. E.g. .nr VS 24.
Greg
On Tuesday, September 7, 2010, EBo wrote:
>
> One of my reviewers always prefer to get documents double spaced.
>
> How do you do this in troff? I tried .v and .vs (with 2, 12pts and 24pts
I think you would have to use two passes of troff. The first pass would
generate the info you needed to define the crossref macro.
For example:
.NH 2
Middle of Paper
.LP
.tm crossref: .if "$1"middle" see sec. \*(SN
I have the label 'crossref:' in case you are generating definitions for
sever
Typing from phone so I'll be brief.
Just put the header at the bottom of the page and pipe the .ps output
through sed to change the vertical position.
I found this easier than moving back up the page in troff.
Greg
On Mar 24, 2011 12:56 PM, "Rudolf Sykora" wrote:
Hello 9fans,
since in the pr
Thanks Erik. That helped. Now I only get multi-character
output periodically. I don't know what triggers it,
but at least I can type.
Turns out the mouse has the same problem. Button-3 click
in acme sends the text flying by. I don't know how many
clicks are being sent.
erik quanstrom writes:
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