Re: [Groff] Future direction of groff

2014-02-08 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Tadziu Hoffmann : > > > I'd miss pic, though. I like pic. I'd like to decouple pic > > from troff and save it. > > Do you think you could accept graphviz/dot as a replacement? > It "feels" similar, and it produces (among others) svg and pdf. Maybe. One advantage pic has is that it's better fo

Re: [Groff] Future direction of groff

2014-02-08 Thread Eric S. Raymond
(Sorry for delayed response; I lost four days to the power outage.) James K. Lowden : > I didn't ask you why it was difficult to conjure structure where none > was intended. My question is much simpler: what about the troff > *model* of presentation prevents it from generating web-digestible > ar

Re: [Groff] Future direction of groff

2014-02-08 Thread hohe72
Tadziu Hoffmann wrote (Fri, 7 Feb 2014 00:29:11 +0100): > >> If the user set up the page margins incorrectly, you can hardly > >> blame the software for that... > > > > cannot see any border setups at http://asciidoc.org/article.txt > > You set it in the style sheet? Or on the command line? >