> Here is a little proof-of-concept, built entirely with a few
> ad-hoc macros and some hacks to account for font (mis-)encoding:
It looks pretty swell for a PoC! Also, Mark Twain is a great satirist, I'll say
that!
> View the PDF in acroread with page display settings "Two-Up"
> and "Show Cover
> > I'm trying to see how much trouble it would be to typeset
> > a bilingual text parallel by pages, as in, one language on
> > the recto page, the other on the verso page, synchronized
> > somehow by paragraph, preferably more or less automagically.
> I would say you could do this with a numbe
Hi folks,
Thanks to Bertrand, groff does a pretty cool thing where the version
number triple is computed based on the tag in the Git repository (using
"git describe").
However this feature seems to play poorly with Savannah/cgit's "snapshot
archive" feature.
You may have noticed that for any com
Hi Branden,
sorry for missing this earlier...
G. Branden Robinson wrote on Wed, May 25, 2022 at 10:43:20PM -0400:
> man/groff.7.man
[...]
> .\" begin list [piloting a possible extension to man(7)]
> .de LS
> . nr saved-PD \\n[PD]
> . nr PD 0
> ..
> .
> .\" end list [piloting a possible extensi
Hello,
I want to use groff for invoices. To that end, I need to format numbers
with two digits after the decimal point.
For example, from "100" to "100.00".
I don't think there is a relevant format, currently.
https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/groff.html#Assigning-Formats
Did I miss so
Hi Branden,
> Anybody who's read the previous discussion(s) we've had on this list
> about it, or the current version of the groff_char(7) man page, will
> be aware of my objections (the latter because I think those objections
> follow from a historical understanding of troff special characters).
