Re: [groff] grohtml shortcomings

2018-12-03 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi James, James K. Lowden wrote on Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 04:46:31PM -0500: > I converted the Heimdal kf.1 page to html recently, and found what I > consider to be problems with both appearance and HTML style. For mdoc(7) input in particular, do not use "groff -mdoc -T html". Use "mandoc -T html

[groff] grohtml shortcomings

2018-12-03 Thread James K. Lowden
I converted the Heimdal kf.1 page to html recently, and found what I consider to be problems with both appearance and HTML style. https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/blob/1d4ebc0df798cb1d8edca910b806e55c6c19bccb/appl/kf/kf.1 GNU groff version 1.22.3 Command: groff -man -T html man1/kf.1

Re: [groff] Design and Implementation of *roff

2018-12-03 Thread Ted Harding
On Mon, 2018-12-03 at 20:36 +0100, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > the epsiode about Joe Ossanna is indeed funny, but what > > the guy in the video is saying at that point is of course > > total crap: very untrue in multiple respects and totally > > irresponsible. > > Indeed, I did not mean to imply it

Re: [groff] Design and Implementation of *roff

2018-12-03 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> the epsiode about Joe Ossanna is indeed funny, but what > the guy in the video is saying at that point is of course > total crap: very untrue in multiple respects and totally > irresponsible. Indeed, I did not mean to imply it was factual. But it is entertaining. It reminded me of the legion

Re: [groff] Design and Implementation of *roff

2018-12-03 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> Software Tools in Pascal by Brian W. Kernighan and P.J. Plauger For what it's worth, some of the example code from the book "Software Tools" is available from Brian Kernighan's web page. It has a simple roff written in ratfor, which I've manually converted slapdash into Fortran-90. Some part

Re: [groff] Design and Implementation of *roff

2018-12-03 Thread Doug McIlroy
> Without roff, Unix might well have disappeared. The patent department and the AT&T president's office are the only in-house examples I know where Unix was adopted because of *roff. The important adoptions, which led Berk Tague to found a separate Unix Support Group, were mainstream telephone ap

Re: [groff] Design and Implementation of *roff

2018-12-03 Thread Pierre-Jean Fichet
Ted Harding wrote: > So, happily inspired, they developed the > text-formatter runoff (--> roff) on Unix, and then > demonstrated to Bell Labs how good it was at formatting > structured documents -- in particular legal documents. > At this point Bell Labs woke up, and adopted Unix! Do we have any

Re: [groff] Design and Implementation of *roff

2018-12-03 Thread Pierre-Jean Fichet
Hello alls, Actually, neatroff's documentation has a figure which quickly shows where Neatroff's major layers and features are implemented in its source tree: http://litcave.rudi.ir/neatroff.pdf#page Pierre-Jean.