Hi Branden,
> To the broader group, I would furthermore suggest that, being GNU roff,
> it might behoove us to preserve the above "accident of history" only in
> compatibility mode, and have the \sn form accept only a single-digit
> argument for consistency with other escape forms. Doug still wou
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 10:53:23PM -0400, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> Subject: Re: weird \s
>
> Did the author of groff steal the code from Bell Labs? Or did
> he merely read the code and preserve the feature in a misguided
> nod to backward compatibility? Did he find it by experiment?
My understandi
Thanks for spotting the facts in info, a jungle I rarely
enter. Especially for groff, for which groff(7) is quite a
comprehensive reference.
The difference between \s39 and \s40 is a documented living
fossil!
Clearly this dates from the first CAT phototypesetter's limited
range of point sizes: 6
Dear Everyone,
Brian Kernighan's paper "A TROFF Tutorial" goes into detail about how these
things were parsed back in the day and why. This is perhaps the "accident of
history"?
jen.
From: groff [groff-bounces+jennifer.sayers=sydney.edu...@gnu.org] on b
At 2020-03-30T19:16:56-0400, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> Does anyone else see the following behavior?
> Version 1.22.4 handles \s correctly up to \s39, but
> truncates a size of 40 or greater to its first
> digit. Here are two screen shots, with ^D edited in
> to show where input ends and output begins.
On 31/03/20 10:16:56, Doug McIlroy wrote:
Does anyone else see the following behavior?
Version 1.22.4 handles \s correctly up to \s39, but truncates a size
of 40 or greater to its first digit.
Good morning Doug,
The info page for my version 1.21 has the following:
`\sN' Set the point size t
I've used troff since the 1980s, and I've NEVER used that form for
defining point size.
Instead, I used .ps to establish the point size, then \s+nn where I've
used values up to 15
or perhaps more -- don't recall for sure.
I then us \s0 to return to the original value before the change.
Same
Does anyone else see the following behavior?
Version 1.22.4 handles \s correctly up to \s39, but
truncates a size of 40 or greater to its first
digit. Here are two screen shots, with ^D edited in
to show where input ends and output begins.
groff | tail -5
\s39 hello
^D
%%EndPageSetup
/F0 39/Times-
Hello Peter,
Am Montag, 30. März 2020, 18:26:22 CEST schrieb Peter Schaffter:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020, Heinz-Jürgen Oertel wrote:
> > Am Montag, 30. März 2020, 09:47:17 CEST schrieb Heinz-Jürgen Oertel:
> > > I did, and now it looks very good for me. For now it's a good
> > > solution for me.
> >
On Mon, Mar 30, 2020, Heinz-Jürgen Oertel wrote:
> Am Montag, 30. März 2020, 09:47:17 CEST schrieb Heinz-Jürgen Oertel:
> > I did, and now it looks very good for me. For now it's a good
> > solution for me.
>
> I did not look close enough, only for the heading and the
> footnote. Sorry. After a
Am Montag, 30. März 2020, 04:00:37 CEST schrieb Peter Schaffter:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020, Heinz-Jürgen Oertel wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 29. März 2020, 22:04:57 CEST schrieb Peter Schaffter:
> > > On Sun, Mar 29, 2020, Heinz-Jürgen Oertel wrote:
> > > > I have a need to place a foote note to a HEADING,
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