Re: [mom] Page header on first page

2023-04-22 Thread Frederic Chartier
On 2023-04-22 16:22 -0400, Peter Schaffter wrote: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2023, Frederic Chartier wrote: > > I'm trying to convince mom to give me a page header on every > > page, including the first. > > With the docheader turned off, insert the macro .HEADER immediately > after .START. That worked. T

Re: groff injects blank page

2023-04-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Carlos, At 2023-04-22T16:46:00-0400, Carlos wrote: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 03:00:34PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > At 2023-04-22T12:36:51-0400, Carlos wrote: > > > How am I supposed to give you an example? > > > > For a guy who likes manually constructing pipelines, Ralph seems > >

Re: A new ignoramus question about user-installed fonts

2023-04-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Oliver, At 2023-04-21T20:13:14+0200, Oliver Corff wrote: > thank you very much for your encouraging feedback. I try to moonlight occasionally from my normal gig of gripes and laments. ;-) > Indeed I did neither mention nor note in the example file (multitest.ms > --- I thought the .ms in the

Re: [mom] Page header on first page

2023-04-22 Thread Peter Schaffter
Frederic -- On Sat, Apr 22, 2023, Frederic Chartier wrote: > Hello ladies and gents. I'm trying to convince mom to give me a > page header on every page, including the first. In desperation, > I've even tried .HEADER_ON_FIRST_PAGE but she's having none of > it. Can it be done ? I don't need or wan

Re: groff injects blank page

2023-04-22 Thread Carlos
On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 03:00:34PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2023-04-22T12:36:51-0400, Carlos wrote: > > How am I supposed to give you an example? > > For a guy who likes manually constructing pipelines, Ralph seems > inordinately disinterested in the intermediate stages when > troub

Re: Outdated warning

2023-04-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Alex, At 2023-04-22T20:03:29+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > I found some spurious warning using 1.23.0-rc3 while linting some mdoc(7) > page: [...] > mdoc warning: .Nx: Unknown NetBSD version '9.0' (#263) > make: *** [share/mk/build/catman.mk:91: .tmp/man/man1/basenc.1.cat.set] Error > 1 > m

Re: mdoc(7): CHECKSTYLE

2023-04-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Alex, At 2023-04-22T19:46:54+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Is CHECKSTYLE compatible with mdoc(7) pages? It's not _in_compatible. mdoc(7) has no support for this register and does not check for it, but setting it shouldn't break anything. On the other hand, mdoc(7) is already fairly chatty

Re: groff injects blank page

2023-04-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-04-22T12:36:51-0400, Carlos wrote: > How am I supposed to give you an example? For a guy who likes manually constructing pipelines, Ralph seems inordinately disinterested in the intermediate stages when troubleshooting. ;-) Unfortunately the PostScript output you've been sharing is not

Re: groff injects blank page; and program 'pnmtops' can't handle -nosetpage option; can't generate doc/gnu.eps

2023-04-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Carlos, At 2023-04-22T10:22:35-0400, Carlos wrote: > > You are not obliged to try out this release candidate in any way, > > but I thought I'd mention it. > > I woudn't mind. As a matter of fact I tried it out, save the program > 'pnmtops' can't handle > -nosetpage option; can't generate doc/

Re: groff injects blank page; and program 'pnmtops' can't handle -nosetpage option; can't generate doc/gnu.eps

2023-04-22 Thread Carlos
On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 05:37:24AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Carlos, > > I'll resequence your mail to put the issue you wanted to set aside last. > > At 2023-04-22T05:26:37-0400, Carlos wrote: > > Currently running > > > > the called subprograms: > > > > GNU grops (groff) version

Re: groff injects blank page; and program 'pnmtops' can't handle -nosetpage option; can't generate doc/gnu.eps

2023-04-22 Thread Carlos
On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 10:22:35AM -0400, Carlos wrote: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 05:37:24AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Hi Carlos, > > > > I'll resequence your mail to put the issue you wanted to set aside last. > > > > At 2023-04-22T05:26:37-0400, Carlos wrote: > > > Currently running

Re: Outdated warning

2023-04-22 Thread Alejandro Colomar
On 4/22/23 20:13, наб wrote: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 08:03:29PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >> $ make build-catman V=1 >> TROFF -mdoc .tmp/man/man1/basenc.1.cat.set >> troff -mdoc -Tutf8 -t -ww -rLL=78n <.tmp/man/man1/basenc.1.cat.troff 2>&1 >> >.tmp/man/man1/basenc.1.cat.set \ >> | ( !

Re: Outdated warning

2023-04-22 Thread наб
On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 08:03:29PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > $ make build-catman V=1 > TROFF -mdoc .tmp/man/man1/basenc.1.cat.set > troff -mdoc -Tutf8 -t -ww -rLL=78n <.tmp/man/man1/basenc.1.cat.troff 2>&1 > >.tmp/man/man1/basenc.1.cat.set \ > | ( ! grep ^ ) > mdoc warning: .Nx: Unknow

Outdated warning

2023-04-22 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Branden, I found some spurious warning using 1.23.0-rc3 while linting some mdoc(7) page: $ make build-catman V=1 TROFF -mdoc .tmp/man/man1/basenc.1.cat.set troff -mdoc -Tutf8 -t -ww -rLL=78n <.tmp/man/man1/basenc.1.cat.troff 2>&1 >.tmp/man/man1/basenc.1.cat.set \ | ( ! grep ^ ) troff:m

mdoc(7): CHECKSTYLE

2023-04-22 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Branden, Is CHECKSTYLE compatible with mdoc(7) pages? Cheers, Alex -- GPG key fingerprint: A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5 OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[mom] Page header on first page

2023-04-22 Thread Frederic Chartier
Hello ladies and gents. I'm trying to convince mom to give me a page header on every page, including the first. In desperation, I've even tried .HEADER_ON_FIRST_PAGE but she's having none of it. Can it be done ? I don't need or want a document header, if that matters, so .DOCHEADER OFF. Thanks in

Re: groff injects blank page

2023-04-22 Thread Carlos
On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 04:37:03PM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Carlos, > > > That's my result from the teletype. And xterm confirms the same > > pretty much > > As I said elsewhere, give us an example which doesn't work, the command > you run, and the result on the teletype and xterm. > >

Re: groff injects blank page

2023-04-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Carlos, > That's my result from the teletype. And xterm confirms the same > pretty much As I said elsewhere, give us an example which doesn't work, the command you run, and the result on the teletype and xterm. -- Cheers, Ralph.

Re: groff injects blank page; and program 'pnmtops' can't handle -nosetpage option; can't generate doc/gnu.eps

2023-04-22 Thread Carlos
On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 05:37:24AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Carlos, > > I'll resequence your mail to put the issue you wanted to set aside last. > > At 2023-04-22T05:26:37-0400, Carlos wrote: > > Currently running > > > > the called subprograms: > > > > GNU grops (groff) version

Re: groff injects blank page; and program 'pnmtops' can't handle -nosetpage option; can't generate doc/gnu.eps

2023-04-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Carlos, I'll resequence your mail to put the issue you wanted to set aside last. At 2023-04-22T05:26:37-0400, Carlos wrote: > Currently running > > the called subprograms: > > GNU grops (groff) version 1.22.4 > GNU troff (groff) version 1.22.4 Just to establish some common ground, this is

Re: Chinese texts. (Was: A new ignoramus question about user-installed fonts)

2023-04-22 Thread Deri
On Saturday, 22 April 2023 11:07:08 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Deri, > > > The problem is probably not ghostscript, current gropdf moans about > > "too many glyphs" when it can't allocate all used to 8 bit code > > points. This too will be addressed in the next version of gropdf, > > which ad

Re: groff injects blank page.

2023-04-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Carlos, > .TH, that is normally in the beginning of the page, causes it, or it's > indirectly involved in this blank page. ... > But if I were to type an .ig and two dots in between that pesky `.TH` > macro, the blank page disappears. Can you give the list a short example input and the command

Chinese texts. (Was: A new ignoramus question about user-installed fonts)

2023-04-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Deri, > The problem is probably not ghostscript, current gropdf moans about > "too many glyphs" when it can't allocate all used to 8 bit code > points. This too will be addressed in the next version of gropdf, > which addresses problems of very large fonts with thousands of > different glyphs.

groff injects blank page; and program 'pnmtops' can't handle -nosetpage option; can't generate doc/gnu.eps

2023-04-22 Thread Carlos
Hello list. First about the error `program 'pnmtops' can't handle -nosetpage option; can't generate doc/gnu.eps` can't go past this very particular cvs compilation after who-knows-how-many-tries so far with this `program 'pnmtops' can't handle -nosetpage option; can't generate doc/gnu.eps` error