On Tue, 25 Oct 2016, Steve Izma wrote:
I think the whole point of typography is to make texts more readable
than impressionist paintings. I like to read what I typeset, not just
look at it.
Yes. For books, reports, manuals, etc, the key feature is readability. For
an advertisement, it is mor
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:57:57PM +0200, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> Subject: Re: [Groff] *roff for desktop publishing - is it feasible?
>
> ...
> I'd start with some
> suitable macros to simplify setting a consistent style
> for the whole page. On the other hand, this is probably
> why my designs
> Any chance you can upload the source?
Sure. It's in the same place, with filename "dtp.ro".
Be warned, however, that it's not particularly pretty.
This is because (a) I've only tried to imitate the
original layout with no regard for elegance, therefore
the code consists mostly of just placing
In -ms, I want a floating keep (KF-KE) to begin with 1-column,
then switch to 2-column text. Of course I want the keep to
float past the following text. It is OK, though, if the keep
does have to float to a new page, for the new page to contain
the kept text and nothing more.
In many tries, I have
> an example of some quite complicated page-formatting
> entirely composed using groff (with output to the PS
> device, and some embedded PostScript
I have made greeting cards for 30 years by cobbling together
groff, PostScript, C, Haskell, shell and physical cut-and-paste,
often with input from
Following up on an earlier illustrative post, here is
an example of some quite complicated page-formatting
entirely composed using groff (with output to the PS
device, and some embedded PostScript code using the
groff command \X'ps: exec ... ' for some special effects,
as well as using \X'ps: impor
