> I tried to create an otherwise empty pile in eqn:
Troff has the bracket-building function \b'...'
which stacks the given characters atop each other,
but the result is usually suboptimal, because the
stack turns out to be either too big or too small
(the vertical spacing is fixed, and for brace
> Let's assume I get these braces working, is there any chance to use
PS to rotate them in a tbl cell without breaking everything?
I've done that quite easily with PostScript from a non-groff source.
The ericky part was automating it so I had to do it only once rather
than once per run as the docu
Dear All,
a follow-up after a private mail from Doug.
You see my attempts to reproduce a vertical long brace similar to the
example in my previous post.
The output was obtained with
groff -e -t ESB.tbl
and -Tps, which shows rather undernourished braces in the wrong vertical
position.
The pd
Dear All,
I am new to the groff mailing list; Werner suggested I try to ask here.
Currently I am reproducing (typesetting) a pile of historical material
which looks as if typeset with roff and the roff tool chain (tbl, eqn
etc.). My trial output reproducing complex tables looks so similar to
the
Hi Larry,
Larry Kollar via wrote on Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 10:24:44PM -0500:
> Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> Somebody wrote:
>>> Does Cynthia ever pop up to reflect on mdoc's design?
>> Not really. With the help of Marshall Kirk McKusick, i managed to
>> get into direct contact with her in 2014 ...
>>
> Is there a recent version of the script 'fixmp' mentioned in the
> MetaPost documentation? (It allows groff to accept MP-generated PS
> files.)
Sorry, no. Additionally, it seems that the current version of
MetaPost (i.e., TeXLive 2020) is broken: it inserts unwanted '%'
characters.
> Google
