Re: An example of a multiplication table: some unresolved questions

2023-05-30 Thread Oliver Corff
Dear Thomas, that works like a charm. Thank you indeed! On 30/05/2023 10:09, Thomas Dupond via wrote: Dear Oliver, Using .nf is also important but I think it is not clear from the manual (either info or groff(7)) that this is needed, if only for getting rid of the 'cant break line' errors. I

Re: EQN - special words

2023-05-30 Thread Damian McGuckin
On Tue, 30 May 2023, G. Branden Robinson wrote: "sin" through "det" get a spacing type of "operator" applied to them, whereas the last three get no type at all. The man page doesn't quite get around to documenting this, but it appears that eqn tokens with type "operator" get a thin space plac

Re: Bug#1036826: How to avoid using '\c' in man pages

2023-05-30 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello Branden, thanks for your help. On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 03:17:34PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > [Debian BTS users: please CC the groff list on replies.] Done. > It is important for programs that interpret man pages to handle this. > It should be given some priority. But I wouldn't b

Re: Bug#1036826: How to avoid using '\c' in man pages

2023-05-30 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[added Arnold Robbins to CC list] At 2023-05-30T17:39:20+0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > It is important for programs that interpret man pages to handle > > this. It should be given some priority. But I wouldn't be > > surprised if one > > Ok, then the proper fix is in po4a, so this bug repor

Re: EQN - special words

2023-05-30 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Damian, At 2023-05-26T01:35:36+1000, Damian McGuckin wrote: > The following > > sin cos tan sinh cosh tanh arc > max min lim log ln exp > Re Im det and if for > > are treated as special words and are converted to Roman font when > encountered. > > As I understand these word

Re: An example of a multiplication table: some unresolved questions

2023-05-30 Thread Thomas Dupond via
Dear Oliver, Le 2023-05-30 à 09:17, Oliver Corff a écrit : Dear Thomas, thank you very much indeed. Beyond your critical correction of using a genuine tab (0x09) character instead of \t, it was \c which does the trick. Furthermore, my setting of tab stops had been flawed. Using .nf is also

Re: An example of a multiplication table: some unresolved questions

2023-05-30 Thread Oliver Corff
Dear Thomas, thank you very much indeed. Beyond your critical correction of using a genuine tab (0x09) character instead of \t, it was \c which does the trick. Furthermore, my setting of tab stops had been flawed. I now use .ta T 6m which works as desired. Yet I still run into a now definite