[Groff] Berkeley chess font (was: The Great 202 Jailbreak)

Hi Ingo, thank you so much for your much appreciated input and your findings. This gives me enough stuff to dig into for the next few days - from a first read it's very interesting! I'll come back to you as soon as I am one step further. Regarding "jaap", the only "Jaap" that came to my mind i

Re: [Groff] The Great 202 Jailbreak.

>> Hi Ralph, > Ditto! :-) And likewise… ;-) [...] "Berkeley Font Catalogue" > The troff there for selecting the font refers to it as just `ch'. Does > that mean the file on disk would be similarly shortly named? I > downloaded a few Ultrix disk and tape images and poked around a bit but > didn

Re: [Groff] [PATCH] Use bash for several contrib scripts

> Folks, I think the aim of all shell scripts in groff is to be POSIX > `sh' compatible. In case there are bashisms, they should be removed > and/or circumvented. I second that! "sh" is the lowest common denominator on nearly all UNIX operating systems in existence. Therefore one should strive f

Re: [Groff] The Great 202 Jailbreak.

Hi Ralph, > Interesting twenty-minute video covering the history of > reverse-engineering the $50,000 Linotron 202 typesetter at Bell Labs in > the late 1970s. http://youtu.be/CVxeuwlvf8w (Hat-tip > https://twitter.com/rob_pike/status/412398836628217856.) Funny coincidence that you mentioned th

[Groff] groff 1.22.2: typo in texinfo file?

Hi folks, there seems to be a typo in the texinfo file for the current version of groff. In my opinion "-Tdef" should rather read "-Tdev". --- groff-1.22.2/doc/groff.texinfo 2013-02-07 13:06:11.0 +0100 +++ groff-1.22.2/doc/groff.texinfo-fixed2014-01-01 18:11:44.0 +0

Re: [Groff] Combining logical operators and conditions

> This doesn't work. groff.info says about 'XXX'YYY' and other > operators: > > Note that these operators can't be combined with other operators > like `:' or `&'; only a leading `!' (without whitespace between the > exclamation mark and the operator) can be used to negate the > result.

[Groff] Combining logical operators and conditions

Hello troffers! I want to check whether a number register contains a certain number and a string register contains one of the predefined strings: .ds str1 bar .nr nr1 5 .if ((\n[nr1]=5) & ("\*[str1]"foo" : "\*[str1]"bar" : "\*[str1]"baz")) \{\ . tm okay .\} Invoking that with groff tells me th

[Groff] More typos in UTP "revival edition"

--- ch14.t 2003-07-28 02:59:45.0 +0200 +++ ch14.t.fixed2011-01-25 13:40:51.0 +0100 @@ -2262,7 +2262,7 @@ .Pe or: .Ps -\f[CB]$ troff -a\fP +$ \f[CB]troff -a\fP .Pe the program will take standard input from the keyboard and send its results to standard output (the s

Re: [Groff] E/R-diagrams with pic

Hi Deri, > Graphvis is very good at things like this, and Ervis is specifically for E/R > diagrams. > I had a look into Erviz and it looks promising! Thanks alot for this hint. Best regards Ralph

[Groff] Typo in UTP "revival edition"?

Hello troffers! On p. 336 in the "revival edition" the third example from the bottom of the page starts with: .ie \\n%1>1 \{\\"If pageno > 1 exactly as it is stated in the original paperback edition, too. But shouldn't that rather be written as: .ie \\n%1>1 \{. \"If pageno > 1

[Groff] Publications that use troff [troff.org] - additions

Hello Ralph! Hello troffers! A copy of this mail is sent to the groff-list, because it may be of general interest. [ref. http://www.troff.org/pubs.html] While I browsed through some documentation, I discovered that a whole set of manuals was produced with troff: (1) OSF/Motif: User's Guid

[Groff] groff_mom(7) - incorrect directory listed under FILES section

Hello troffers! It seems that the man page for the contributed mom macro package (groff_mom(7)) shows an incorrect path to the examples; see supplied patch. --- groff-1.21/contrib/mom/groff_mom.man2010-12-31 08:33:09.0 +0100 +++ groff-1.21/contrib/mom/groff_mom.man.fixed 2011-

[Groff] groff.texinfo - section 5.21 - sentence difficult to understand

Hello troffers! English is not my native language, so please take this into account. In the current edition of groff.texinfo (Edition 1.21, Winter 2010) it reads unter section '5.21 Writing Macros': "The optional second argument to de changes this to a macro to ‘.end’." For me this sen

[Groff] E/R-diagrams with pic

Hello troffers! Did someone try to layout E/R diagrams with pic? Several years ago I built a very rudimentary toolchain, which read one or more config files, took the table definitions from the database's data dictionary, sends them through a large awk script, which did the conversion to pic mar

Re: [Groff] Typo in pic documentation

Hi Werner, >> I think there is a small typo in the documentation for the pic >> preprocessor (doc/pic.ms in the source tree). Compare figure 3-1 and >> the source code for the figure, which is printed after the figure. > > Patch applied, thanks. After refreshing my source tree from the current C

[Groff] Typo in pic documentation

Hi, I think there is a small typo in the documentation for the pic preprocessor (doc/pic.ms in the source tree). Compare figure 3-1 and the source code for the figure, which is printed after the figure. Patch: --- groff-1.21/doc/pic.ms 2010-12-31 08:33:09.0 +0100 +++ groff-1.21/d