Re: [Groff] New project: `RUNOFF'

2013-05-08 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Wed, May 08, 2013, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi again Bernd, > > > `mom' is much like `RUNOFF'. So `RUNOFF' is not dead. The 2-letter > > abbreviations of classical `roff' make the `roff' files unreadable. > > Funnily enough, mom's style of SHOUTING_ALL_THE_TIME has put me off > using it to da

Re: [Groff] New project: `RUNOFF'

2013-05-08 Thread Bernd Warken
> Von: "Ralph Corderoy" > > > `mom' is much like `RUNOFF'. So `RUNOFF' is not dead. The 2-letter > > abbreviations of classical `roff' make the `roff' files unreadable. > > Funnily enough, mom's style of SHOUTING_ALL_THE_TIME has put me off > using it to date. Far too noisy and intrusive for

Re: [Groff] New project: `RUNOFF'

2013-05-08 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> I would prefer the man-page name `RUNOFF.7', because the original >> `RUNOFF' system was always written in upper case. Any complaints? > > I'd prefer not, but it's only a preference. I would also prefer `runoff.7'. Werner

Re: [Groff] New project: `RUNOFF'

2013-05-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi again Bernd, > `mom' is much like `RUNOFF'. So `RUNOFF' is not dead. The 2-letter > abbreviations of classical `roff' make the `roff' files unreadable. Funnily enough, mom's style of SHOUTING_ALL_THE_TIME has put me off using it to date. Far too noisy and intrusive for someone used to a cou

Re: [Groff] New project: `RUNOFF'

2013-05-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Bernd, > Doug McIlroy wrote: > > I noticed one occurrence of CTTS in the man page. > > The `RUNOFF' project started at CTTS. More hardware information will > appended later on. I also found a CTTS emulator, which seems to be > quite interesting. I think Doug's point, which may have been mis

Re: [Groff] New project: `RUNOFF'

2013-05-08 Thread Bernd Warken
> Von: "Doug McIlroy" > > Thanks for the link info. I thought I knew just about all there > was to know about RUNOFF, but learned from the man page that it > had a much longer life than I was aware of. > > I'm pretty sure that the reason for all the arrangements for > upper-case representation wa

Re: [Groff] New project: `RUNOFF'

2013-05-06 Thread Bernd Warken
> Von: "Doug McIlroy" > > > I started a project `contrib/RUNOFF' with documentation. > > Where should one look for contrib/RUNOFF? Have a look at the groff CVS source in the directory `/contrib/RUNOFF'. For me, the CVS source is complete and `make' installs the `RUNOFF' man-pages. Bernd Wark

Re: [Groff] New project: `RUNOFF'

2013-05-06 Thread Ted Harding
On 06-May-2013 20:04:52 Doug McIlroy wrote: >> I started a project `contrib/RUNOFF' with documentation. >> ... >> Enjoy. > > Where should one look for contrib/RUNOFF? > > Doug McIlroy I should have posted this earlier! It took some finding, but I finally tracked it down to: http://cvs.savannah

Re: [Groff] New project: `RUNOFF'

2013-05-06 Thread Doug McIlroy
> I started a project `contrib/RUNOFF' with documentation. > ... > Enjoy. Where should one look for contrib/RUNOFF? Doug McIlroy

[Groff] New project: `RUNOFF'

2013-05-05 Thread Bernd Warken
`RUNOFF' is the predecessor of `roff'. I started a project `contrib/RUNOFF' with documentation. So far, it only contains 2 man-pages. The file `runoff.man' has a large `hdtbl' table which looks vary nice in graphical `troff'. As `nroff' isn't supported by `hdtbl', an additional `tbl' had to be