At 2020-03-03T02:09:02+0100, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> > As far as I can tell from Kernighan and Cherry[1], eqn's "define"s
> > aren't parameterized at all. The groff eqn(1) man page claims to
> > document (only) extensions to classical eqn, but I don't see this
> > extension described there.
>
>
> As far as I can tell from Kernighan and Cherry[1], eqn's "define"s
> aren't parameterized at all. The groff eqn(1) man page claims to
> document (only) extensions to classical eqn, but I don't see this
> extension described there.
It actually does: in subsection "Macros":
Macros
Ma
At 2020-03-01T23:07:07-0500, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> .EQ
> define f % $1 %
> f("a,b")
> .EN
>
> draws a diagnostic from Gnu eqn: "newline before end of quoted text".
> Remove the comma and all is well. Apparently the comma delimits
> the first argument.
>
> The program isn't totally naive about par
On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 08:02:06AM +1100, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2020-03-02T11:24:03-0500, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> > Why does this input echo "\w'0'"
> > .tm \w'0'
> > while this input echoes "5000"?
> > .nr w \w'0'
> > .tm \nw
i don't know if it helps but trying it with the 9base troff
At 2020-03-02T11:24:03-0500, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> Why does this input echo "\w'0'"
> .tm \w'0'
> while this input echoes "5000"?
> .nr w \w'0'
> .tm \nw
On my system, it's consistent with (an unpatched) Heirloon troff and
therefore, possibly, with classical troff:
$ ./heirloom/bin/troff -V
Heirl
Hi Deri,
> Is the download file expected to be immutable?
If it's shipped inside the package then yes, so that debsums(1) can test
it hasn't been changed. Ditto with other packaging formats AIUI.
> How do packagers deal with configuration files which are intended to
> be editable by users?
A .
> Is the download file expected to be immutable? There are
> instructions how to add fonts to groff, which involves
> changing the download file. How do packagers deal with
> configuration files which are intended to be editable by
> users?
I recommend having your personal groff font folder inde
On Sunday, 1 March 2020 17:40:59 GMT Colin Watson wrote:
> Thanks, but this is unlikely to be a very helpful approach for files
> built as part of distribution-managed packages, where the shipped files
> are normally expected to be immutable (for example, checksumming the
> installed files would fa
> Why does this input echo "\w'0'"
> .tm \w'0'
> while this input echoes "5000"?
> .nr w \w'0'
> .tm \nw
>From the info file:
-- Request: .tm string
Send STRING to the standard error output; this is
very useful for printing debugging messages among
other things. STRING is read
Why does this input echo "\w'0'"
.tm \w'0'
while this input echoes "5000"?
.nr w \w'0'
.tm \nw
Doug
Hello,
> > > you fixed this by seding the download file which doesn't exist in the
> > > debian distro.
>
> Not so:
>
> $ dpkg -L groff | grep download
> /usr/share/groff/1.22.4/font/devpdf/download
oops… sorry i missed it and thanks for letting me know.
> process. I hadn't noticed that b
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