On Mon, Sep 20, 2010, Werner Lemberg wrote:
> > Werner, I can't provide a small example to demonstrate the "blank
> > page at the end of a diversion" anomaly I posted about earlier, only
> > a big, unwieldy one. Aside from having to post several (long) mom
> > macros that are modified versions of
> Werner, I can't provide a small example to demonstrate the "blank
> page at the end of a diversion" anomaly I posted about earlier, only
> a big, unwieldy one. Aside from having to post several (long) mom
> macros that are modified versions of what's in the cvs, I'd have to
> include a refer dat
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
>
> > As to changing fonts while underlining, it's hard to imagine
> > a situation in which it's likely to happen. Underlining
> > should at best be an occasional effect, IMHO. Still,
> > one likes to have solutions that cover every possibility.
>
>
> As to changing fonts while underlining, it's hard to imagine
> a situation in which it's likely to happen. Underlining
> should at best be an occasional effect, IMHO. Still,
> one likes to have solutions that cover every possibility.
Well, for editorial purposes it's sometimes useful to mark
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
>
> > The only hitch I've encountered is that if the sentence spacing is
> > greater than the groff default, the underline gets broken between
> > sentences.
>
> Yes, also if you switch to, e.g., bold while in underline mode.
> In fact, in anything whi
> The only hitch I've encountered is that if the sentence spacing is
> greater than the groff default, the underline gets broken between
> sentences.
Yes, also if you switch to, e.g., bold while in underline mode.
In fact, in anything which isn't printed with a single "show"
(or one of its varian
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010, Werner Lemberg wrote:
>
> > If you're satisfied with a solution that works *only* with the
> > postscript device, then this can be achieved with device-control
> > escapes. Here's something to play around with. It redefines[*]
> > grops's basic text-printing functions to me
> If you're satisfied with a solution that works *only* with the
> postscript device, then this can be achieved with device-control
> escapes. Here's something to play around with. It redefines[*]
> grops's basic text-printing functions to memorize the position at
> the start of a piece of text
Mike Bianchi wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 09:35:54PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
>> :
>> One has the feeling that one could reach out and grasp it, but it
>> always seems to be just a few inches further away than the length
>> of one's arm ...
>
> “Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
>
> > What's needed is a macro that can be called inline in arg
> > 3 to start underlining, and another macro in arg 4 to stop
> > underlining. Even if ul.tmac could be coerced into behaving
> > this way (I've tussled with it, without success), it seem
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010, Ted Harding wrote:
> I made a serious attempt myself some years ago to try to crack the
> underlining problem. The basic issue, of course, is that .cu, or .ul,
> as you say, simply switches to "underlined font" (which in general
> is italic).
> ...
> One has the feeling that o
> What's needed is a macro that can be called inline in arg
> 3 to start underlining, and another macro in arg 4 to stop
> underlining. Even if ul.tmac could be coerced into behaving
> this way (I've tussled with it, without success), it seems
> to me that the macros in ul.tmac are an awful lot o
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 09:35:54PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
> :
> One has the feeling that one could reach out and grasp it, but it
> always seems to be just a few inches further away than the length
> of one's arm ...
“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?”
On 10-Sep-10 18:51:22, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> Can someone quickly remind me why .cu for the PostScript device
> can't be made to behave like .cu when it's called for a TTY? In
> other words, it underline glyphs and spaces rather than converting
> text to italics?
>
> Werner's ul.tmac is really
Can someone quickly remind me why .cu for the PostScript device
can't be made to behave like .cu when it's called for a TTY? In
other words, it underline glyphs and spaces rather than converting
text to italics?
Werner's ul.tmac is really clever, but I can't see how to get it to
work in all the c
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