On Sun, 22 Sep 2024, isf (Jord?n) wrote:
When I use some symbols like \ or \* apparently perform a function that
do not normally allow to appear in the formatted text. How can I make
such symbols appear as if mere words?
Do you mean you want the backslash and backslash to appear 'as-is'?
Than
Sep 22, 2024 20:29:08 G. Branden Robinson :
> At 2024-09-23T00:08:15+, hoh...@posteo.de wrote:
>> Last but not least, haven't you ever realised how dense the Troff
>> User's Manual by J.F.Ossanna and B.W.Kernighan really is! No style, no
>> feelings, no glitter, no Latin.
>
> No Latin...huh.
Hi onf,
At 2024-09-23T01:02:35+0200, onf wrote:
[...]
> I wondered if perhaps having some minimal context could allow one to
> decide whether the " character is actually a quotation mark or just
> an inch mark, and similarly with '.
It's going to take me some time to absorb the rest of your messa
Hi Jordán,
At 2024-09-22T21:51:08-0300, isf (Jordán) wrote:
> When I use some symbols like \ or \* apparently perform a function
> that do not normally allow to appear in the formatted text. How can I
> make such symbols appear as if mere words?
As with the shell and C languages, in *roff the bac
When I use some symbols like \ or \* apparently perform a function that
do not normally allow to appear in the formatted text. How can I make
such symbols appear as if mere words?
Thanks.
--
Jordán
Miembro de la Free Software Foundation y distribuidor de software libre
https://libertysoftware.cl
At 2024-09-23T00:08:15+, hoh...@posteo.de wrote:
> Last but not least, haven't you ever realised how dense the Troff
> User's Manual by J.F.Ossanna and B.W.Kernighan really is! No style, no
> feelings, no glitter, no Latin.
No Latin...huh.
"Translate a to b, etc., on output."
"One common use
[discussion moved to groff@ which is a discussion list; I feel that
bug-groff@, like groff-commit@, is not--Reply-To set accordingly]
At 2024-09-22T18:40:46-0400, Dave wrote:
> Branden wrote in bug #66233:
>
> > It feels to me more like the alternation of renderings as
> > "tty-char" does should
[looping in groff list because...typography!]
At 2024-09-21T13:39:44-0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2024 at 11:46:08AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Drop `na` and `ad` requests, recalling rationale from January
> > revision of the capability tables in terminfo(5).
>
> I adde
