Hi Deri,
At 2024-09-05T20:31:55+0100, Deri wrote:
> On Thursday, 5 September 2024 04:15:44 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > At 2024-09-04T15:05:38-0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 11:04 AM Deri
> > > wrote:
> > > > The example using \[u012F] is superior (in my opinion) beca
Deri --
On Thu, Sep 05, 2024, Deri wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> There is a way for -Tpdf, I just have not written it yet! When I do, you get
> text hi-light, score through, and squiggly line as a bonus, they are all
> related.
Gropdf to the rescue.
--
Peter Schaffter
https://www.schaffter.ca
On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 4:06 PM Peter Schaffter wrote:
> there being no meaningful .cu available for PostScript or PDF
> output. (Should we raise this issue again? Nothing ever seems to
> get done no matter how much we discuss it.)
It has a Savannah ticket, opened in response to a 2014 thread on
Hi Tadziu,
At 2024-09-06T00:13:15+0200, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> > (Should we raise this issue again? Nothing ever seems to
> > get done no matter how much we discuss it.)
>
> I think this is because it's not really something that many
> users badly require. (I certainly don't.)
>
> Continuous
> (Should we raise this issue again? Nothing ever seems to
> get done no matter how much we discuss it.)
I think this is because it's not really something that many
users badly require. (I certainly don't.)
Continuous underlining can probably only be done well by
treating it as a character a
On Thursday, 5 September 2024 21:33:44 BST Peter Schaffter wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2024, Deri wrote:
> > I believe the mom macro set has an UNDERLINE macro see:-
> >
> > https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/momdoc/goodies.html#underline
> >
> > Note that it can only be used by -Tps (not -Tpdf). I think
On Thu, Sep 05, 2024, Deri wrote:
> I believe the mom macro set has an UNDERLINE macro see:-
>
> https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/momdoc/goodies.html#underline
>
> Note that it can only be used by -Tps (not -Tpdf). I think it is using a
> postscript snippet from Tadziu.
Correct on both counts.
Not
On Thursday, 5 September 2024 02:25:56 BST Philippe PITTOLI via wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've a question regarding drawing requests.
>
> I would like for example to underline or highlight some text even
> when it is spanning over multiple lines (or pages). Thus, I suppose
> the best way would be to p
On Thursday, 5 September 2024 04:15:44 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> [fair warning: _gigantic_ message, 5.7k words]
> Hi Deri & Dave,
Hi Branden,
> I'll quote Dave first since his message was brief and permits me to make
> a concession early.
>
> At 2024-09-04T15:05:38-0500, Dave Kemper wro
> I am translating to Spanish the book "Introduction to the command line"
> Attached is an image showing that I made it.
In your case you are intending those double quotes to directly
become characters in the output (as opposed to them being used
internally as delimiters for macro arguments). I
"isf (Jordán)" writes:
> Thanks, but what if I want do something like this:
> .CW "$ echo "foobar""
> Because the output is something like this:
> bar"$ echo foo
> When I want something like this in the PDF.
> $ echo "foobar"
It may help to go through this step by step, or at least
En 5/9/2024 12:17, Russ Allbery escribió:
> You need three quotes, not two. Semantically, the whole macro argument is
> enclosed in double quotes, and then the double quotes within that
> double-quoted string have to be escaped, which *roff does by doubling
> them. So:
>
> .CW """$ echo foob
"isf (Jordán)" writes:
> Thats literally what Im trying and the output is something like this:
> Input:
> .CW ""$ echo foobar""
> Ouput:
> echo$
You need three quotes, not two. Semantically, the whole macro argument is
enclosed in double quotes, and then the double quotes within that
doub
En 5/9/2024 07:44, Lennart Jablonka escribió:
> The most direct way to pass ASCII double quotes as arguments is to
> quote the argument and double the quotes to pass.
>
> .CW """test"""
>
> But I guess that could be problematic if the macro passes the
> argument on to another macro.
Thats lite
On Thu, 5 Sep 2024, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
.CW "this phrase is spicy with \[lq]Courier\[rq] powder" .
Also, within a double-quoted request or macro argument, you
can use a double double-quote to get a single double-quote
in the argument:
.CW "| ` ' \[aq] \[lq] \[rq] \[dq] "" |"
but you'll o
> .CW "this phrase is spicy with \[lq]Courier\[rq] powder" .
Also, within a double-quoted request or macro argument, you
can use a double double-quote to get a single double-quote
in the argument:
.CW "| ` ' \[aq] \[lq] \[rq] \[dq] "" |"
but you'll only need this if you're typesetting comput
>I am using the MS macro in groff and with the .CW I saw that I could not
>add a phrase with quotes, well I could write .CW “test” but I can't do
>something like: .CW “”test“” what should I do so that the quotes can be
>seen with .CW?
The most direct way to pass ASCII double quotes as arguments is
[self-follow-up]
At 2024-09-05T02:34:54-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi Jordán,
Whoops, I was doofus and...left out the quotation marks.
See if you like this better.
$ nroff -ms <
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
Hi Jordán,
At 2024-09-04T21:46:28-0400, isf (Jordán) wrote:
> I am using the MS macro in groff and with the .CW I saw that I could
> not add a phrase with quotes, well I could write .CW “test” but I
> can't do something like: .CW “”test“” what should I do so that the
> quotes can be seen with .CW?
Hi Philippe,
At 2024-09-05T03:25:56+0200, Philippe PITTOLI via wrote:
> I've a question regarding drawing requests.
>
> I would like for example to underline or highlight some text even
> when it is spanning over multiple lines (or pages). Thus, I suppose
> the best way would be to perform a dra
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