Hi Doug,
> On unjustified text, fmt (which uses an algorithm purported to be like
> Knuth-Plass)
I wonder if that accounts for modern, coreutils 8.28-1, fmt's weirdness
that I've seen for a while but never got around to investigating?
$ yes x | fmt | awk '{print length, $0}' | uniq -c | sed
Doug McIlroy wrote:
> How does Utroff deal with even simple changes of line length, e.g. for
> flowing text around an image as in the following trivial example.
> A robust version that allows for intervening page or paragraph
> breaks would pose even more difficulty.
>
> .wh \n[nl]+3 `in +
I am still puzzled about paragraph-at-a-time typesetting in groff.
How does Utroff deal with even simple changes of line length, e.g. for
flowing text around an image as in the following trivial example.
A robust version that allows for intervening page or paragraph
breaks would pose even more dif
Hello James and Ralph,
Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > > It may be better to use `.write', if other troffs have that, rather
> > > than allow the local echo(1) to perhaps interpret sum-list's
> > > content?
> ...
> > sy printf '%s\n' '\\*[sum-list]' | sed -e "s/@@@/n./g"
> >
> > would elimina
Hi James,
> > It may be better to use `.write', if other troffs have that, rather
> > than allow the local echo(1) to perhaps interpret sum-list's
> > content?
...
> sy printf '%s\n' '\\*[sum-list]' | sed -e "s/@@@/n./g"
>
> would eliminate that issue.
But still leave open the origina
On Wed, 06 Dec 2017 12:24:58 +
Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > . sy echo \\*[sum-list] | sed -e "s/@@@/n./g" |
> > iconv...
>
> It may be better to use `.write', if other troffs have that, rather
> than allow the local echo(1) to perhaps interpret sum-list's content?
Else:
Hi Pierre,
> . sy echo \\*[sum-list] | sed -e "s/@@@/n./g" | iconv...
It may be better to use `.write', if other troffs have that, rather than
allow the local echo(1) to perhaps interpret sum-list's content?
--
Cheers, Ralph.
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Hello alls,
On my previous mail, I said I was willing to discuss about some
of the goodies offered with Utmac. But as I had a look at those
things, I realized that while some are effectively goodies only
useful on some rare occasions, the others are things which are
filling basic needs. So, I’ll
