Re: [Groff] A little Greetings card

2009-12-29 Thread Ted Harding
On 29-Dec-09 16:27:32, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote: > Thanks to both of you, now i see: it *is* beautiful! > > Werner LEMBERG wrote on 29.12.09: >> BTW, the necessary command line options for groff for >> file `foo' can be guessed with the `grog foo' command. > oh, good! it did show me the correct comm

Re: [Groff] A little Greetings card

2009-12-29 Thread Jan-Herbert Damm
Thanks to both of you, now i see: it *is* beautiful! Werner LEMBERG wrote on 29.12.09: > BTW, the necessary command line options for groff for > file `foo' can be guessed with the `grog foo' command. oh, good! it did show me the correct command. jan

Re: [Groff] A little Greetings card

2009-12-29 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I removed trailing whitespace saved as "picture" and processed > simply with > > groff picture > picture.ps > > it shows some text and some ellipsises, probably not what is > intended. > > Sorry for this ignorant novice question: How do I invoke groff > correctly for this? Add the -p command lin

Re: [Groff] A little Greetings card

2009-12-29 Thread Larry Kollar
Jan-Herbert Damm wrote: > I removed trailing whitespace saved as "picture" and processed simply with > groff picture > picture.ps > > it shows some text and some ellipsises, probably not what is intended. > > Sorry for this ignorant novice question: > How do I invoke groff correctly for this

Re: [Groff] A little Greetings card

2009-12-29 Thread Jan-Herbert Damm
Hello Ted and all, Werner LEMBERG wrote on 29.12.09: > > > The following draws a pretty picture, which I send you with all my best > > wishes, hoping you had a good Christmas and will have a good New Year. > > Nice! I wish everybody the same. > > A small caution: Everyone who wants to try Ted'

Re: [Groff] A little Greetings card

2009-12-29 Thread Robert Thorsby
On 29/12/09 20:15:42, ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: > > A small caution: Everyone who wants to try Ted's > > code should strip trailing whitespaces. > Sorry for the trailing spaces! They were not in the > original, and must have been introduced when I pasted > from the source file into the em

Re: [Groff] A little Greetings card

2009-12-29 Thread Ted Harding
On 29-Dec-09 00:39:11, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> The following draws a pretty picture, which I send you >> with all my best wishes, hoping you had a good Christmas >> and will have a good New Year. > > Nice! I wish everybody the same. > > A small caution: Everyone who wants to try Ted's code shou

Re: [Groff] A little Greetings card

2009-12-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> The following draws a pretty picture, which I send you > with all my best wishes, hoping you had a good Christmas > and will have a good New Year. Nice! I wish everybody the same. A small caution: Everyone who wants to try Ted's code should strip trailing whitespaces. Werner

[Groff] A little Greetings card

2009-12-28 Thread Ted Harding
Hi Folks, The following draws a pretty picture, which I send you with all my best wishes, hoping you had a good Christmas and will have a good New Year. Ted. .ds RED \X'ps: exec 10 0 setrgbcolor' .ds GR0 \X'ps: exec 00.5 0 setrgbcolor' .ds YEL \X'ps: exec 00 1 0 setcmykcolor' .