Re: [Groff] E/R-diagrams with pic

2011-01-20 Thread Deri James
On Thursday 20 Jan 2011 23:25:32 Ralph Graulich wrote: > Hello troffers! > > Did someone try to layout E/R diagrams with pic? > Several years ago I built a very rudimentary toolchain, which read one or > more config files, took the table definitions from the database's data > dictionary, sends the

[Groff] E/R-diagrams with pic

2011-01-20 Thread Ralph Graulich
Hello troffers! Did someone try to layout E/R diagrams with pic? Several years ago I built a very rudimentary toolchain, which read one or more config files, took the table definitions from the database's data dictionary, sends them through a large awk script, which did the conversion to pic mar

Re: [Groff] EQN documentation

2011-01-20 Thread Cedric Sodhi
Hi, on-list, I don't have to be ashamed of admitting that I thought I knew EQN but only now I found out that there is L and I in certain macro packages :) I'm a little bit wondering about your extensive use of spaces "~" and "^". If I'm allowed to give you my input on that: I have never used them

Re: [Groff] EQN documentation

2011-01-20 Thread Cedric Sodhi
My last suggestion was perhaps a very stupid one. I just realized that Roff is maybe not safe to be run from an untrusted source. Please consider it never said.

Re: [Groff] EQN documentation

2011-01-20 Thread Ted Harding
On 18-Jan-11 21:27:52, Doug McIlroy wrote: >> I have been contemplating for a long time putting together >> a connected account > > Cheers! I really miss having concise yet complete online > documentation for much Gnu software (pace Texinfo). One shouldn't > have to scrounge around obscure histo