On 5/23/21, Oliver Corff wrote:
> in a follow-up to my last message I just want to give one real-world
> example of a very terse manpage, "for the initiated reader only."
>
> Take refer(1).
There is an open bug report documenting the deficiencies of the refer
man page (http://savannah.gnu.org/bug
On 17 May 12:50, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> [looping in linux-man@ because issues of user education and topics that
> fall between project/man page stools come up below]
>
> At 2021-05-16T20:29:30-0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> > This stuff about less(1) is only tangential to groff, but it did come
On Wed, 26 May 2021 21:01:33 +0200
Oliver Corff wrote:
> Of course, I can typeset the table separately and assemble the pdf
> pages by hand, but a solution totally controlled from within the
> groff file would be great.
Not an answer, but in ancient times, your output would have gone a
printer,
On Wednesday, 26 May 2021 20:01:33 BST Oliver Corff wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> one question: is it possible to redefine the papersize _during_ a *roff
> run? Simple idea: I have a text with a few huge tables, best viewed in
> landscape mode, and rather than seeing the tables being truncated or
> produ
Dear All,
one question: is it possible to redefine the papersize _during_ a *roff
run? Simple idea: I have a text with a few huge tables, best viewed in
landscape mode, and rather than seeing the tables being truncated or
producing separate pdf files with different paper settings a temporary
rede
