Re: troff Memorandum Macros documentation derived from the paper "MM - Memorandum Macros"

2021-07-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2021-07-16T10:37:11-0400, T. Kurt Bond wrote: > The paper "MM - Memorandum Macros" by D. W. Smith, J. R. Mashey, E. C. > Pariser, and N. W. Smith, AT&T Bell Laboratories, June 1980 does not > seem to be available in PDF or Postscript on the Internet with a > license that allows legal copying. I

Re: Macros for printing envelopes?

2021-07-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi, Peter & James! At 2021-07-16T18:07:10-0400, Peter Schaffter wrote: > How such a template is used with a script, however, is entirely site > dependent. As far as selecting trays goes, that can be done with > lpoptions(1) or the -o flag to lpr(1) in the script. And options to lpr can be passed

Re: Bugs submitted for improving documentation of fonts provided; pdfmark/pdfroff(1) documentation; and integrating install-font.sh

2021-07-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2021-07-16T20:21:24-0400, T. Kurt Bond wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 14:48:03 -0400, > "G. Branden Robinson" wrote: > > Kurt, could you file some Savannah bugs about this and the previous > > issue you raised, about font repertoires? My to-do list grows faster > > than I can shrink it, but I do

Re: Would it be reasonable to list the fonts that are available by default in groff?

2021-07-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2021-07-16T22:31:56-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote: > I am still not enlightened. As far as I know, neither install-font.sh > nor fontforge are present, documented, or referenced in the groff > distribution. fontforge will be mentioned in the grops(1) man page of groff 1.23.0. If we can ever get

Re: Fwd: Would it be reasonable to list the fonts that are available by default in groff?

2021-07-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2021-07-17T01:55:02-0400, T. Kurt Bond wrote: > Yes, "sudo install-font.sh " is simpler, as long as you know > how to answer the prompts! I should have started there in my > explanation. I guess the fact that I run the script potentially > multiple times on multiple different computers makes m

Re: groff_mm(7)'s use of periods before macro names is inconsistent.

2021-07-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi, Kurt! At 2021-07-17T17:43:15-0400, T. Kurt Bond wrote: > In the list of macros in groff_mm(7) the macro names in the headings > of paragraphs in the "Macros" section are never specified with a > leading period. In similar cases in groff_ms(7) and groff_man(7) the > periods are always used.

groff_mm(7)'s use of periods before macro names is inconsistent.

2021-07-17 Thread T. Kurt Bond
In the list of macros in groff_mm(7) the macro names in the headings of paragraphs in the "Macros" section are never specified with a leading period. In similar cases in groff_ms(7) and groff_man(7) the periods are always used. Also, in the text of paragraphs groff_mm(7)'s use of periods before