On 15-Nov-2014 06:26:27 Werner LEMBERG wrote:
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>>> Here is another idea. Use the existing (;) notation eg as follows
>>>
>>> (Ex; expr )
>
> This is a nice idea and indeed a possible solution to the problem.
> However, I think it's probably too restricted to cover all aspects
> people were d
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> I'm fed up pointing out in different emails this is about having
> some of those new mom-using users step across into troff:
So I'm going to step into the breach.
> > The input language is the main criticism of roff today...
The *roff language has ha
Hi, since I sparked an issue, I might explain my:
I coded a macro, that does a defined vertical space
(.sp //n[distance]u). The value can be set if the
switch '--define' is used. The macro should make a
temporary vertical move, when a number was provided.
Therefore I met a condition that if no p
Hi Ralph,
> What about string expressions that give strings as results? And having
> `.ds' take a new-format expression?
This is a totally different thing. We had been talking about conditionals and
numerical expressions.
> I'm fed up pointing out in different emails this is about having some
Hi Carsten,
> > I'm interested in better expressions, string and numeric. It's poor
> > string expressions that got us into this via 'c'a'b'c'd'e'.
>
> (BTW: I don't know the semantic of 'c'a'b'c'd'e' ... :-)
(It's a proposed syntax for "is 'c' either 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', or 'e'".)
> The result
Hi Steffen,
> I'm wondering a bit since your current interim and part-time
> favorite Python supports ask-me-the-name-for-it sequences:
>
> elif o in ('-h', '--help'):
Python's just a language I'm using for some of the examples. :-)
(42, 'foo', 3.14) is a tuple in Python. A read-only o
Carsten Kunze wrote (Fri, 21 Nov 2014 18:12:10
+0100 (CET)):
> The new users might not start with creating macro packages like MM.
> They would use an existing macro package to create a document. The
> best way to attract them is to create a comfortable macro package.
Samples! Running samples,
