Re: [Groff] Odd problem escaping `.'

2006-05-04 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
Keith Marshall wrote: On Wednesday 03 May 2006 5:25 pm, Louis Guillaume wrote: Joerg van den Hoff wrote: sorry to interfere, but \*[SN-DOT], \*[SN-NO-DOT] seem not be there in groff 1.19.1 (which is what I'm running on my Mac), at least they don't work and are not present in s.tmac. did they oc

Re: [Groff] Odd problem escaping `.'

2006-05-03 Thread Keith Marshall
On Wednesday 03 May 2006 5:25 pm, Louis Guillaume wrote: > Joerg van den Hoff wrote: > > sorry to interfere, but \*[SN-DOT], \*[SN-NO-DOT] seem not be there > > in groff 1.19.1 (which is what I'm running on my Mac), at least they > > don't work and are not present in s.tmac. did they occur only _af

Re: [Groff] Odd problem escaping `.'

2006-05-03 Thread Louis Guillaume
Joerg van den Hoff wrote: > sorry to interfere, but \*[SN-DOT], \*[SN-NO-DOT] seem not be there in > groff 1.19.1 (which is what I'm running on my Mac), at least they don't > work and are not present in s.tmac. did they occur only _after_ 1.19.1 > or what am I missing? >> Keith verified off-list

Re: [Groff] Odd problem escaping `.'

2006-05-03 Thread Keith MARSHALL
Joerg van den Hoff wrote: [Re: availability of SN-DOT, SN-NO-DOT and other s.tmac features] >> PORPHANS/HORPHANS >>give the user finer control of the number of initial lines of >>a paragraph which must be kept together, on the same page, for >>free standing paragraphs and after a headi

Re: [Groff] Odd problem escaping `.'

2006-05-03 Thread Keith MARSHALL
Joerg van den Hoff wrote: > sorry to interfere, but \*[SN-DOT], \*[SN-NO-DOT] seem not be there > in groff 1.19.1 (which is what I'm running on my Mac), at least they > don't work and are not present in s.tmac. did they occur only _after_ > 1.19.1 or what am I missing? See my later follow-up. The

Re: [Groff] Odd problem escaping `.'

2006-05-03 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
Keith Marshall wrote: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 5:47 pm, Louis Guillaume wrote: Thank you for the explanation. This is great. "\*[SN]" works. Note that \*[SN_DOT] does not appear to work! Sorry, my mistake. That should have been \*[SN-DOT], and \*[SN-NO-DOT] for the case without the terminal d

Re: [Groff] Odd problem escaping `.'

2006-05-02 Thread Keith Marshall
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 8:55 pm, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > Note that \*[SN_DOT] does not appear to work! > > A typo; it's called \*[SN-DOT] More like failing memory :-) Should have checked the manpage *before* I posted! Of course, the effect is the same: sorry, I got it wrong :-( Regards, Keit

Re: [Groff] Odd problem escaping `.'

2006-05-02 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Note that \*[SN_DOT] does not appear to work! A typo; it's called \*[SN-DOT] > Is there a document that covers these escapes? I can't find anything in > groff(7) or in info groff. Try groff_ms(7). Werner ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org

Re: [Groff] Odd problem escaping `.'

2006-05-02 Thread Keith Marshall
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 5:47 pm, Louis Guillaume wrote: > Thank you for the explanation. This is great. "\*[SN]" works. > > Note that \*[SN_DOT] does not appear to work! Sorry, my mistake. That should have been \*[SN-DOT], and \*[SN-NO-DOT] for the case without the terminal dot; (IIRC, these two

Re: [Groff] Odd problem escaping `.'

2006-05-02 Thread Louis Guillaume
Keith MARSHALL wrote: > Louis Gillaume wrote: >> I'm looking for a way to get my section numbers in the table of >> contents. This is with -ms. >> >> This is what I've been trying: >> >> .NH 1 >> OVERVIEW >> .XS >> \n[H1] >> \.\n[H2] > > You would need \&.\n[H1] here, if the intention is to pass t

Re: [Groff] Odd problem escaping `.'

2006-05-02 Thread Keith MARSHALL
Louis Gillaume wrote: > I'm looking for a way to get my section numbers in the table of > contents. This is with -ms. > > This is what I've been trying: > > .NH 1 > OVERVIEW > .XS > \n[H1] > \.\n[H2] You would need \&.\n[H1] here, if the intention is to pass the initial dot through as text; (the \

Re: [Groff] Odd problem escaping `.'

2006-05-02 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
Louis Guillaume wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a way to get my section numbers in the table of contents. This is with -ms. This is what I've been trying: .NH 1 OVERVIEW .XS \n[H1] \.\n[H2] \.\n[H3] OVERVIEW .XE The above produces... 1 OVERVIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[Groff] Odd problem escaping `.'

2006-05-02 Thread Louis Guillaume
Hi, I'm looking for a way to get my section numbers in the table of contents. This is with -ms. This is what I've been trying: .NH 1 OVERVIEW .XS \n[H1] \.\n[H2] \.\n[H3] OVERVIEW .XE The above produces... 1 OVERVIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 ... in the table