Re: [Groff] The bottom is always ok, the head never is

2006-02-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I use me (the macro package, I mean) to produce these things and > more. I can't comment on -me since I've never used it. > The program also draws text at .sp |19.7c, that is 10 cm from the > bot of page, and the text's top is really at 10 cm height. A > smaller font at the same .sp |19.7c he

[Groff] Manuals in pdf format

2006-02-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
[about the PDF output of groff.texinfo] > - I find something interesting somewhere, I try it out and it does > not work. Yeah, this thing does not belong to groff, it does > belong to a macro package. > > The header says: "The GNU Troff Manual" > The header on the next page says: "M

Re: [Groff] Justification problem in Polish

2006-02-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
First of all, which groff version? > I have started to use groff some time ago. I use it to generate > document in Polish language. I have installed Polish font Quasi > Times and I use to generate documents macro latin2. But as you can > see in attached document that there is a problem with jus

Re: [Groff] Macro rename - what am I doing wrong?

2006-02-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I'm trying to make some macros that will build up the SEE ALSO list > [...] > > The approach I took was to try and rename the .SH macro to something else > and stick my code in there. That flopped, what am I doing wrong? You have first to call .TH within the man page (.TH defines .SH), then

Re: [Groff] RE: List delays

2006-02-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> With Miklos's and Werner's messages of > > Feb 22 07:24 GMT distributed to me 18:24 GMT > Feb 22 07:28 GMT distributed to me 18:41 GMT > > the delays at lists.gnu.org are now at least 11 hours. Today it's significantly better! > Looking at the list archives at > > http://lists.gnu.org

[Groff] RE: List delays

2006-02-25 Thread Ted Harding
On 22-Feb-06 Ted Harding wrote: > It seems, looking at the headers of recent mails to > the list, that postings to the groff list are being > delayed at lists.gnu.org by 6-12 hours, typically > over 9 hours. > > Is this (as I hope) a temporary phenomenon? > > Best wishes to all, > Ted. With Mikl

Re: [Groff] unicode support - where to compose?

2006-02-25 Thread Bruno Haible
Werner Lemberg wrote: > Please be careful! Unicode gets extended from time to time, and there > are high chances that new non-spacing diacritics are added. > Consequently, a solution within groff must be based on > user-controllable data. > > I suggest to (re)use > > .composite foo > > (just a s

Re: [Groff] unicode support - where to compose?

2006-02-25 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > When an input file contains the character , preconv > > transforms it to \[u1EBF], and troff transforms it to a single > > glyph u0065_0302_0301. Fine. > > > > But when an input file contains the characters > > , preconv transforms it to > > x\[u0302]\[u0301], and troff produces three distinct

Re: [Groff] RE: List delays

2006-02-25 Thread Miklos Somogyi
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