Re: [Groff] Trouble with mm

2012-04-18 Thread Ted Harding
On 18-Apr-2012 17:41:09 Cedric Sodhi wrote: >> As for the ß character, try using the -k option to invoke the >> preconv(1) preprocessor. That should also fix any other >> non-ASCII characters (vowels with umlauts, for example) as well. > > Hello Larry, > > I'm already using preconv. > -- Cedric

Re: [Groff] Trouble with mm

2012-04-18 Thread Cedric Sodhi
> As for the ß character, try using the -k option to invoke the preconv(1) > preprocessor. That should also fix any other non-ASCII characters (vowels > with umlauts, for example) as well. Hello Larry, I'm already using preconv. -- Cedric

Re: [Groff] Trouble with mm

2012-04-18 Thread Larry Kollar
Cedric Sodhi wrote: > I recently decided to use mm instead of ms because it appeared that mm > offered far more but I'm having a hard time getting it to do what I > want. > > In particular, I'm missing the information about which macro has to be > invoked when, where and in which context togethe

Re: [Groff] Trouble with mm

2012-04-17 Thread Cedric Sodhi
Hello, my apologies, I was speaking of "me" when I meant "mm" Everything I said was meant with regard to "mm" NOT "me". Sorry again, I hope you may now relate better to my problem. regards, Cedric On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 01:43:20PM +0200, Patrik Schindler wrote: > Hello Cedric, > > Am 17.04.2

Re: [Groff] Trouble with mm

2012-04-17 Thread Patrik Schindler
Hello Cedric, Am 17.04.2012 um 12:30 schrieb Cedric Sodhi: me on the other hand appears to be rather complicated and I seem not to find a documentation describing me as a whole. Regarding documentation: This is clearly not true. Complicated: Depends what you expect and are used to. :-)

Re: [Groff] Trouble with mm

2012-04-17 Thread Cedric Sodhi
In reply to my own email, I've come across another bizarre behaviour. I tried to add an Apendix with a name containing spaces: .APP "My Appendix" However, quotes ("") did not prevent the Argument "My Appendix" from being interpreted as two arguments "My" and "Appendix". I assume this comes from

Re: [Groff] trouble with \_

2011-01-13 Thread walter harms
Am 13.01.2011 12:02, schrieb Tadziu Hoffmann: > >> I run into a problem that left me confused. >> I wanted to use \_ to draw a line in a table. > > Can you check for trailing spaces? I get the underscore instead > of a sequence of dashes if the cell contains more than just "\_". > Or are you u

Re: [Groff] trouble with \_

2011-01-13 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> I run into a problem that left me confused. > I wanted to use \_ to draw a line in a table. Can you check for trailing spaces? I get the underscore instead of a sequence of dashes if the cell contains more than just "\_". Or are you using cygwin, and it's a LF vs. CRLF problem?