Ancient history: when I wrote BCPL roff, I immediately noticed the
page-level density gradient from thick on the left to thin on the
right if padding spaces were inserted from the right. I next tried
randomly distributing the padding. This was even worse because it
led one to perceive false phrase
Alas, spooky.diff, allegedly at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/attachments/20180626/6721611f/attachment.diff
elicits 404 Not Found. It may be that some server or client is
allergic to unusual file extensions.
doug
G. Branden Robinson wrote in <20180626153737.mf72sv3paetlc...@crack.dead\
beast.net>:
|I enjoyed this Easter egg; maybe you will too.
Why easter egg if i might ask?
|src/preproc/refer/refer.cpp:
...
|while (opt != 0 && *opt != '\0') {
| switch (*opt) {
...
| case '-':
|
I enjoyed this Easter egg; maybe you will too.
src/preproc/refer/refer.cpp:
for (--argc, ++argv;
!finished_options && argc > 0 && argv[0][0] == '-'
&& argv[0][1] != '\0';
argv++, argc--) {
const char *opt = argv[0] + 1;
while (opt != 0 && *opt != '\0') {
switc
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 03:09:57PM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Branden,
>
> > Can someone tells me why this happens? And, more mysteriously, why it
> > only _sometimes_ happens?
>
> Two lines become three, disturbing parity.
NOTE: font -> font_name
> > - afmtodit [-ckmnsvx] [-a
At 2018-06-26T15:09:57+0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Two lines become three, disturbing parity.
[...]
> The extra spaces are moved from the right end of the line to the left:
[...]
> This looks to me like nroff is alternating the added spaces between the
> left and right ends of the line. Kernigha
Hi Branden,
> Can someone tells me why this happens? And, more mysteriously, why it
> only _sometimes_ happens?
Two lines become three, disturbing parity.
> - afmtodit [-ckmnsvx] [-a n] [-d desc_file] [-e enc_file]
> -[-f internal_name] [-i n] [-o out_file] afm_file map_fi
On 26/06/18 14:27, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Can someone tells me why this happens? And, more mysteriously, why it
> only _sometimes_ happens?
I guess its the placement of padding space, when formatting fully
justified ASCII, that's puzzling you? AIUI, to avoid rivers of padding
space, groff
Nice to see the new diagnostic working in the real world.
n/groff_mmse.7
troff: /home/branden/src/GIT/groff/build/../tmac/sv.tmac:131: warning:
contradictory hyphenation flags ignored: 33
--
Regards,
Branden
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