[Groff] numbered displays

2012-10-08 Thread James K. Lowden
My world premier macro pair is below! What would you do to improve them? In particular, what should I do to make them work across page boundaries? The intention is to number a -ms DS display, a la eqn. Input .Ds (5) .DS I Lorem Ipsum .DE .De Output Lorem Ipsum (5) When

Re: [Groff] New release of -markup

2012-10-08 Thread Johann Höchtl
On 10/05/2012 03:08 PM, Denis M. Wilson wrote: On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:10:48 +0200 Johann Höchtl wrote: The reason I did it my way is to save ordinary users the pain of working out sizes for themselves. Given the paper, pointsize and font family to be used, what are good values for text width,

[Groff] utf8 to groff_char filter

2012-10-08 Thread James K. Lowden
I'm doing something that's got to be rare if it's been done before: I'm dictating a groff document. The dictation program lets me say things like "mdash", and the output is UTF-8 (so says file(1)). I prefer to work in ASCII. preconv doesn't do what I think I want. It produces outputs that aren

Re: [Groff] Macro Packages

2012-10-08 Thread Pierre-Jean
Hello alls, "Grigoriy A. Sitkarev" wrote: > While there is one exceptional sociological and > psychological phenomena with groff/troff (as a part of Unix > culture), which is still a point to study. The groff mail‐ > ing list joins three generations of very interesting people: > ‘‘grandfat