Hi Deri,
On Tue Sep 24, 2024 at 1:27 AM CEST, Deri wrote:
> That's the path I followed. A script which takes the text file version from
> the gutenberg site and produces an A5 pdf, via groff, example attached. Happy
> to give you a copy of the script if you are interested.
That sounds (and look
As making everybody equally unhappy is easier than making them
happy, I suggest sole use of 'con/catenate'./s
On Sun, Sep 15 2024, Damian McGuckin wrote:
Somebody on the internet tried to assert that "concatenate" was
a
computer term.
Interesting. I would assert that 'concatenate' is (now) a
On Mon Sep 23, 2024 at 4:54 PM CEST, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> Because the state diagram is complex, it may be hard for a user to see
> what's up when it does make a mistake.
>
> I infer that open-quot-space has two purposes: (1) to allow a single space
> to be quoted, as might happen in a language
On 24/9/24 04:29, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
If I'd read that obituary more closely before writing to the list I'd
have noticed that Mr. Whitting said "at the end of October last year".
His post was in May 2021. So Ted actually passed in 2020.
Ted would often provide immediately, subject only
Hi Branden,
On Mon Sep 23, 2024 at 3:05 AM CEST, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> A document author should say (type) what they mean.
> [...]
> If you mean a foot mark or inches mark rather than a quotation mark, you
> should say so to groff.
I understand this approach. The problem comes when trying
[self-correction]
At 2024-09-23T13:25:51-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> https://groups.google.com/g/MedStats/c/9pIZjqi2nKY?pli=1
If I'd read that obituary more closely before writing to the list I'd
have noticed that Mr. Whitting said "at the end of October last year".
His post was in May 202
Hi folks,
I have sad, but old, news to report. Consequent to the GNU project
tidying up their maintainer records for groff (as of 7 September it
became official--the hot potato is in my lap now), some of their staff
raised questions about Ted Harding's status.
Back in 1999, Werner Lemberg and Te
A word of caution. AI is a dangerous tool. "Smart" features abound in
Microsoft Word and its imitators. They are neat when they work, but can be
extremely frustrating when they go wrong. Whenever one bites, you have to
cook up a special trick--or a whole new layout--to get past it.
A common examp
El 22/9/2024 a las 21:58, G. Branden Robinson escribió:
> 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
