>> |kpathsea library for groff's file management. In particular, it
>> |would allow for multiple font configuration files.
>>
>> This is all too hardwired and restricted, and then scattered at the
>> same time. Nothing a normal person can deal with easily.
>
> Well, if I want to add a font
P.S.:
i wrote:
|Werner LEMBERG wrote:
||Do you actually know the kpathsea library? Without this library, TeX
||file management would be a nightmare. And kpathsea works on all major
||platforms and is very mature.
My "all too hardwired and restricted, and then scattered at the
same time" di
Hello and good morning Ralph,
Ralph Corderoy wrote:
|> For other use cases i would have no problem with a single global
|> .ini-style configuration file and a per-user one with the same syntax.
|
|Aside, I dislike Microsoft's INI files that have appeared in Unix. :-)
|They're not line based
Hi steffen,
> For other use cases i would have no problem with a single global
> .ini-style configuration file and a per-user one with the same syntax.
Aside, I dislike Microsoft's INI files that have appeared in Unix. :-)
They're not line based, but have context, making them more awkward to
sea
Werner LEMBERG wrote:
|> And then think about the special path "//" which' behaviour is
|> implementation defined as well according to POSIX.
|
|Do you actually know the kpathsea library? Without this library, TeX
|file management would be a nightmare. And kpathsea works on all major
|plat
Werner LEMBERG wrote:
|> Wouldn't it be useful to have the possibility of recursively
|> searching the subdirectories of a directory in GROFF_TMAC_PATH,
|> typically with the addition of a double-slash at the end of the
|> concerned directory's name? (Cf. TeX's TEXINPUTS.)
|>
|> E.g.,
|>
|
> And then think about the special path "//" which' behaviour is
> implementation defined as well according to POSIX.
Do you actually know the kpathsea library? Without this library, TeX
file management would be a nightmare. And kpathsea works on all major
platforms and is very mature.
> |kpa
> Wouldn't it be useful to have the possibility of recursively
> searching the subdirectories of a directory in GROFF_TMAC_PATH,
> typically with the addition of a double-slash at the end of the
> concerned directory's name? (Cf. TeX's TEXINPUTS.)
>
> E.g.,
>
> export GROFF_TMAC_PATH=$HOME/groffin
Wouldn't it be useful to have the possibility of recursively searching the
subdirectories of a directory in GROFF_TMAC_PATH, typically with the addition
of a double-slash at the end of the concerned directory's name? (Cf. TeX's
TEXINPUTS.)
E.g.,
export GROFF_TMAC_PATH=$HOME/groffinputs//:
would
