Re: [Groff] Wrapping Text Arond Figures and Captions

Hi Frank, Am 23.01.2013 um 22:53 schrieb Frank Jahnke: > I would like to revisit a topic that has come up from time to time over > the years but really has not been solved. That is wrapping text around > figures and their captions. Yes, I am still aware of this topic and it still has a place o

Re: [Groff] Trouble with mm

Hello Cedric, Am 17.04.2012 um 12:30 schrieb Cedric Sodhi: me on the other hand appears to be rather complicated and I seem not to find a documentation describing me as a whole. Regarding documentation: This is clearly not true. Complicated: Depends what you expect and are used to. :-)

Re: [Groff] Fancier placement of PSPICs?

Am 07.03.2012 um 13:08 schrieb Cedric Sodhi: Are there way to generally place an image different from filling a whole page width? By generically I mean doing so by using PSPIC and without particular knowledge of the sourrounding text and the image's dimension. By differently I mean, for exa

Re: [Groff] help with refer

Hello Heinz-Jürgen, Am 12.12.2011 um 14:58 schrieb Heinz-Jürgen Oertel: if someone has a small example document using the ms macros and refer, I'm sure it will help me understand the usage. Unfortunately I can only provide a me-Example (which should not differ from ms). .\" Reference-

Re: [Groff] eqn: sqrt problems

Hello Denis, Am 02.09.2011 um 13:22 schrieb Denis M. Wilson: What do people think? At first THANK YOU! I also suffer from this problem an I suspicted some font-related problem, too. Interestingly, the problem only arises when generating PDF files from the resulting Groff-PostScript. Send

Re: [Groff] man/troff to LaTex?

Am 04.08.2011 um 17:24 schrieb steve.gnuli...@gmail.com: Is there a way to convert a man source to a LaTex typesetting? I don't know of anything readymade. LaTeX and Groff have a distinct goal but differ in many ways. Such a program would be very complex and time-consuming to write. Think

Re: [Groff] table column spacing

Am 07.04.2011 um 16:04 schrieb Ruud Baart: Thanks, that works. I can't imagine that I missed it in the documentation for so many years. It brings me to an other question. Can the value be set for a whole document? The default value of 3 is quite some space. Probably a register setting?

Re: [Groff] table column spacing

Am 07.04.2011 um 13:43 schrieb Ruud Baart: > In a table the column with can be defined by: w,WMinimal column width > value. But there is also some space from left cell boundary to cell content > and from the right side of the cell content to cell boundary. Sometimes, if > the table is t

Re: [Groff] Initials: Help appreciated

Hello Peter, Am 23.02.2011 um 18:58 schrieb Peter Schaffter: The mom macros have a fairly sophisticated dropcap mechanism based on the number of lines to drop the cap plus the cap-height of running text. You might want to study it for ideas. Thank you! May I ask for a hint, for which comman

Re: [Groff] Initials: Help appreciated

Hello Deri, Am 23.02.2011 um 20:10 schrieb Deri James: This worked for me:- .dropcap Lorem 3 blue TR T 0 (Note the order of parameters). Unfortunately the parameters aren't explained, so I made a mistake. Sorry and thank you!! :wq! PoC

Re: [Groff] Initials: Help appreciated

Hello Ralph, Am 23.02.2011 um 14:43 schrieb Ralph Corderoy: Hi Patrick, without c, please. :-) Thanks. Have a look at the subject "YaDCM (Yet another Drop Capital Macro)" in the archive around 2005-03 and 2005-04. That may help. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2005-03/threads.

Re: [Groff] Problem with -me package

Hello Werner, Am 23.02.2011 um 18:06 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: I get no warning with current CVS. It seems that this has been fixed meanwhile. OK, thanks for checking! :wq! PoC

[Groff] Initials: Help appreciated

Hello, has anyone done a macro for initials yet? I tried to do it inline to learn but I fail: The jumpback doesn't work for me. Even .sp -1v won't work. I get many warnings about "cannot adjust line" and I only see the initial (word) and two empty pages. Last thing I don't know to handle i

Re: [Groff] Problem with -me package

Hello Werner, Am 23.02.2011 um 10:56 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: Sorry for the delay. I checked. The refer-stuff is still in english language, even when using -mde. Yes, of course, since only English has been implemented. Ah, that wasn't obvious. I'm awaiting your patches which should now be

Re: [Groff] Problem with -me package

Hello Werner, Am 14.02.2011 um 09:27 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: Corrected version attached. Thanks! In the CVS, I've heavily modified your patch. Please check. Sorry for the delay. I checked. The refer-stuff is still in english language, even when using -mde. Using e, refer-me and refer

Re: [Groff] Refer and mysterious comma

Am 23.01.2011 um 18:22 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: But what you provided is not a localized German version... Yes. Look into my first mail from Jan. 15. To be honest, I really tried, also with your rfloat proposal but it seems I'm just not programmer enough to decode the many backlashes, [...

Re: [Groff] Refer and mysterious comma

Hello Werner, Am 23.01.2011 um 15:51 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: Here, please. This is for groff 1.19.2! Hope it applies cleanly to 1.21. Thanks! Unfortunately, I believe that there are some errors in your patch: Hm, this is interesting, since for me it works. I proposed a localized germa

Re: [Groff] Refer and mysterious comma

Am 16.01.2011 um 11:11 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: Werner, need a patch for that? For -me? Yes, please. Here, please. This is for groff 1.19.2! Hope it applies cleanly to 1.21. :wq! PoC e.tmac.patch Description: Binary data

[Groff] Readymade Deb-Packages for groff 1.21

Hello, anyone made debian-packages for lenny of groff 1.21? I'm struggling with makefile-hardcoded pathes for xditview and other glitches. :wq! PoC

Re: [Groff] tbl and large font

Am 19.01.2011 um 17:00 schrieb walter harms: this works much better. Is there any reason why changing the font should not change the baseline also ? In fact, it does. But perhaps only within a certain range of sizes and -main reason- in normal text mode which is perhaps not sufficient for

Re: [Groff] Refer and mysterious comma

Hi Tadziu, Am 16.01.2011 um 00:29 schrieb Tadziu Hoffmann: It's the "]-" macro which prepares for a new reference by removing all the reference-related strings (which may have been set by the previous reference), but in e.tmac "[S" is missing from the list of string names in the definition of t

Re: [Groff] Refer and mysterious comma

Am 15.01.2011 um 20:52 schrieb Tadziu Hoffmann: Perhaps this now broken with the new macro? I can see that the reference string for %S is now output everytime after the first reference has been placed in the text which is using %S. I guess you need to add "[S" to the stuff to be removed in "]

Re: [Groff] eqn: sqrt looks ugly

Hi, thanks to everyone who responded. Am 15.01.2011 um 15:52 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: Something is probably broken with your installation. I suspict something with my fonts. Sigh. Btw, transferring the resulting PostScript file to my OS X box and converting that with the OS' tools reveals

Re: [Groff] Refer and mysterious comma

Hello, Am 05.12.2010 um 01:04 schrieb Tadziu Hoffmann: These are not critical. They occur because -me "clears" all relevant strings before formatting a new reference, and groff warns you if you try to remove a string or macro that doesn't exist. Perhaps this now broken with the new macro? I

[Groff] eqn: sqrt looks ugly

Hello, am I doing something wrong or did I find a bug? Input: .EQ y = sqrt x .EN .EQ y = sqrt { x a b c } .EN Processed with: groff -me -ma4 -mgerman -e eqn.me |ps2pdf - ~/eqn.pdf Using groff 1.19.2. Output see screenshot and attached PDF. The line above the sqrt-sign seems to start about on

Re: [Groff] pspic: Text around picture?

Hi Werner, Am 02.01.2011 um 09:16 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: In rfloat.tmac need to take environment attributes into account. For example line length (this works for raw troff without a macro package): Thank you VERY much!! Unfortunately, the space between text and output is gone, now. May I

Re: [Groff] Refer and mysterious comma

Hi Tadziu, Am 30.12.2010 um 21:36 schrieb Tadziu Hoffmann: - space between %D and a following comma from %P. - space before the full stop when %P is not used. try following the date with a "\c", too: \\*([D\c Thanks very much for that! With your explanation regarding \c, it's now cl

Re: [Groff] pspic: Text around picture? (Resent without attachment)

Hello Werner, Am 27.12.2010 um 09:12 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: Does anyone want to help me in fixing remaining issues (and perhaps enable this one to go into some future version of groff itself)? I'll try, however, I can't promise that I have enough time. Thank you very much for your efforts

Re: [Groff] pspic: Text around picture?

Am 03.04.2009 um 18:10 schrieb Denis M. Wilson: Centre hole in text macro fixed. See http://www.oxytropis.plus.com/groff/markup-1.0.1.tar.gz Seems to have increased to 1.0.6. :-) :wq! PoC

Re: [Groff] Refer and mysterious comma

Hi Tadziu, Am 04.12.2010 um 21:07 schrieb Tadziu Hoffmann: [...] But I'm stumbling over some things which I can't explain nor solve. As you can see, between the author (%A) and title (%B), there is some strange quote-comma-quote. It appears to be a bug in -me. With -ms it works perfectly.

[Groff] Refer and mysterious comma

Hello, I want to use refer for what it's been written. :-) But I'm stumbling over some things which I can't explain nor solve. I'm using me-macros with Groff 1.19.2 which I tried to package for debian lenny a while ago (I was missing the Euro-Glyph) in the standard-version. Given it's i

Re: [Groff] labelling and referring

Am 29.11.2010 um 21:14 schrieb (Ted Harding): As well as using the auto-increment mechanism to create successive table/equation numbers automatically, it is also useful to be able to cross-reference them later in the text. Thanks ted, this is a nice extension to the standard-numbering- mech

Re: [Groff] labelling and referring

Am 29.11.2010 um 15:23 schrieb Tim23: Is it possible to label equations or tables to refer to them from anywhere in a text? Yes, for equations this is possible. See the documentation for the .EQ- request to use equation numbering. For tables you have to build something yourself. Example:

Re: [Groff] Inline Images

Am 16.10.2010 um 18:45 schrieb Paul O'Leary McCann: Is there any standard way of putting images inline? Sparklines aren't what I had in mind, but they're an example of the sort of thing I'd like to be able to do. Did you take a look at the PIC-Documentation? It's rather versatile! :wq!

Re: [Groff] How to include a letterhead

Hi Chris, Am 08.10.2010 um 08:12 schrieb Chris Velevitch: I'm trying to create a pdf with full page letterhead. When I do:- cat

Re: [Groff] filled polygons in pic

Am 12.04.2010 um 04:31 schrieb Doug McIlroy: It it seems like a good idea, I might volunteer to try to do it right. From my point of view, it absolutely makes sense. I also missed polys from time to time. :wq! PoC

Re: [Groff] pspic: Text around picture?

Hi Dan, Am 23.02.2010 um 21:47 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: Thank you for the nearly-one-year-old posting at http://www.mail-archive.com/groff@gnu.org/msg04603.html For many reasons I still didn't find the time to dig into the excellent example from Werner, so I can't give you advice yet. :w

Re: [Groff] gs and grops problems

Hello, Am 20.01.2010 um 13:13 schrieb Miklos Somogyi: - it seems that grops that came with 10.6.2 has a problem with any input: grops::4:fatal error: cannot create temporary file: No such file or directory I think it's a problem related to your latest post, where also some

Re: [Groff] groff on Intel platform

Hello Miklos, Am 14.01.2010 um 07:57 schrieb Miklos Somogyi: My questions are: 1) Is there an intel version of groff at all? Groff has been with OS X at least since I use it (10.2) and it's still with 10.6, 1.19.2. 2) Anyone who went through of getting unix stuff and X under Snow any

Re: [Groff] I am tired

Am 03.12.2009 um 10:19 schrieb Walter Alejandro Iglesias: 2) Is it too difficult to write my own macros for footnotes? Don't know but I won't bother reinventing the wheel. There are plenty of ready-made macro sets with footnote-ability. 3) In case I decide to use the ms, me, mom, etc.

Re: [Groff] Integer arithmetic

Am 15.10.2009 um 12:51 schrieb Tadziu Hoffmann: See? That's exactly the issue. Of course it's easy to say "why do we have to put up with such crude limitations in current software", but unless someone is pissed enough to decide to fix it (or someone decides it's fun to do something new), thin

Re: [Groff] Integer arithmetic

Hello Werner, Am 15.10.2009 um 11:48 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: I am pretty stunned. It's not clear to me why current software has such crude limitations with one must circumvent with even more crude wordarounds. TeX is even worse... Maybe, but the goal is to make it better and not to excuse

Re: [Groff] Integer arithmetic

Hi, Am 14.10.2009 um 23:57 schrieb (Ted Harding): The result of the above is that the number register \n[wnumber] is set to 107659 which is the truncated value of the number of "u" in 105.5*0.36mm namely 107659.8425197 (as shown by the value of \*[wstring]), so you have lost precision to the ex

Re: [Groff] pspic: Text around picture?

Hello, Am 28.03.2009 um 00:06 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: May I ask how long you took to write that down? Approximately 90 minutes, including the answer to your email. Thanks! I appreciate your help very much but unfortunately still didn't find time and free CPU-cycles inside my head to dig d

Re: [Groff] pspic: Text around picture?

Hello Werner, Am 27.03.2009 um 16:13 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: AFAIK, no. So, I'm again on the front ;-) It's much simpler: Just set (vertical) traps at the end of the image to reset the margins. I didn't have the time to search the docs for that, but I had in mind that there's some ki

Re: [Groff] pspic: Text around picture?

Hello, Am 27.03.2009 um 21:44 schrieb Heinz-Jürgen Oertel: www.tmac provides this functionality partly. See man groff_www the .MPIMG description. Thanks for your kind answer. An internet browser does this wrapping itself, as soon as you add an align-Tag to the img src. This has nothing t

[Groff] pspic: Text around picture?

Hello, did anyone make an effort to enhance the pspic-macro, to text flows around the picture, like that: x x x +-+ xxx x | | xxx x | | xxx x | | xxx x