Re: [Groff] parallel text processing ; vertical and horizontal mode

2017-09-07 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Thu, Sep 07, 2017, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Peter, > > > Have a look at the attached .mom and .pdf files. > > Nothing attached? Does Mailman strip? Oops. Attached here. -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca .TITLE "L'étranger .AUTHOR "Albert Camus .PRINTSTYLE TYPESET . .\"

Re: [Groff] Elegant -ms and -mpdfmark documents

2017-09-07 Thread Kristaps Dzonsons
> And in addition. Looking at your document. I was wondering if .TL can be > used more than once in a document just as a centered heading. Since .SH and > .NH are not centered? (sorry for high jacking your threed. But it is such a > small little question :-). Mikkel, `TL' is just for the title as

Re: [Groff] parallel text processing ; vertical and horizontal mode

2017-09-07 Thread Deri James
On Thu 07 Sep 2017 18:07:27 Peter Schaffter wrote: > You'll notice that the top of the pdf file has a > line of text spit out by grep(1) that obviously shouldn't be there. > I guess I've never had to deal with diacritics in titles, because > I've never seen this before and the line only appears whe

Re: [Groff] parallel text processing ; vertical and horizontal mode

2017-09-07 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, > Have a look at the attached .mom and .pdf files. Nothing attached? Does Mailman strip? -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy

Re: [Groff] parallel text processing ; vertical and horizontal mode

2017-09-07 Thread Peter Schaffter
> > > > page 1 page 2 > > > > > > > > aaa ... > > > > aaa... aaa > > > > --- --- > > > > bbb ... > > > > bbb... bbb > > Thinking aloud here, I wo

Re: [Groff] Elegant -ms and -mpdfmark documents

2017-09-07 Thread mikkel meinike
And in addition. Looking at your document. I was wondering if .TL can be used more than once in a document just as a centered heading. Since .SH and .NH are not centered? (sorry for high jacking your threed. But it is such a small little question :-).

Re: [Groff] Elegant -ms and -mpdfmark documents

2017-09-07 Thread mikkel meinike
Thanks Kristaps Dzonsons for sharing lowdown. I'll be interestet to to know more about what thats all about and how it looks and so on. /mikkel

[Groff] Reliably identifying a running Roff processor

2017-09-07 Thread John Gardner
The other week, I had an itch to write a Roff snippet to report the name of a running Troff implementation. While this is *not* meant for serious use, it *does* work well to distinguish mandoc(1), groff(1) and Heirloom: .\" Identify the formatter processing the document. .\" The program's name is

Re: [Groff] parallel text processing ; vertical and horizontal mode

2017-09-07 Thread Mike Bianchi
On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 09:45:47AM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Erich, > > > Of course it would be a hypertrophy changeing the distances each and > > every page...no, the idea is to have two parts of text on each page. I don't have the groff chops to address this in general, but I will point

Re: [Groff] parallel text processing ; vertical and horizontal mode

2017-09-07 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Erich, > Of course it would be a hypertrophy changeing the distances each and > every page...no, the idea is to have two parts of text on each page. Overkill to manually have to change the distance, or too jarring for the reader to have it move up and down each page? I was thinking .EN