At 2024-06-28T04:07:56-0600, arn...@skeeve.com wrote:
> The use of .bd is indeed the case. I asked. :-)
> From BWK, forwarded by permission.
Thanks, Arnold! Mystery solved.
Regards,
Branden
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Hi.
> G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> > So maybe they had access to a CAT-8 after all, and used a whopping 5
> > different font plates. Or they used a CAT-4 and had to compose many
> > pages in two passes. That would have been mightily tedious.
Mychaela Falconia wrote:
> Are you certain that
On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 11:13:36AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] Re: Documenting a set of functions with -man
>
> At 2024-06-25T08:51:39-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> > Since the C/A/T held only four fonts, there was no room for
> > Courier.
>
Hi Mychaela,
At 2024-06-25T11:15:32-0800, Mychaela Falconia wrote:
> G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > So maybe they had access to a CAT-8 after all, and used a whopping 5
> > different font plates. Or they used a CAT-4 and had to compose many
> > pages in two passes. That would have been mightily
G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> So maybe they had access to a CAT-8 after all, and used a whopping 5
> different font plates. Or they used a CAT-4 and had to compose many
> pages in two passes. That would have been mightily tedious.
Are you certain that the bold in that book is real B font and no
[looping the groff list back in; Doug's reply went to TUHS]
At 2024-06-25T08:51:39-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> > The lack of a monospaced font is, I suspect, due either to
> > physical limitations of the C/A/T phototypesetter[1] or fiscal
> > limitations--no budget in that department to buy pho
Hi Anton,
...returning to this after a digression on alignment/adjustment...
At 2024-06-18T02:01:24+0300, Anton Shepelev wrote:
> G. Branden Robinson:
> In my sources, I tend to format the declarations of my
> functions in similar manner, e.g.:
>
>void sort
>(void * data, /* pointer
On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 02:52:22PM +, Lennart Jablonka wrote:
> Quoth Anton Shepelev:
> > What is the covenstional way of documenting a set of C
> > functions with -man? Have you any recommendations or
> > examples about typesetting function declaraions, their
> > return types and aruguments i
Hi Lennart,
At 2024-06-21T14:52:22+, Lennart Jablonka wrote:
> Quoth Anton Shepelev:
> > What is the covenstional way of documenting a set of C
> > functions with -man? Have you any recommendations or
> > examples about typesetting function declaraions, their
> > return types and aruguments i
Quoth Anton Shepelev:
What is the covenstional way of documenting a set of C
functions with -man? Have you any recommendations or
examples about typesetting function declaraions, their
return types and aruguments in a classic man-page? The .SY
macro does not seem to work well for C, because its
G. Branden Robinson:
> People frequently run into trouble because they usually
> don't want the text of function prototypes filled, but the
> prototypes can also get lengthy, and they don't know how
> to make the text adapt to the available terminal width in
> the absence of filling. (Short answe
Hi Anton,
At 2024-06-13T01:27:42+0300, Anton Shepelev wrote:
> What is the covenstional way of documenting a set of C functions with
> -man?
There isn't one. As usual I'll offer some historical background.
As far as I know, the community has never converged on a recommended
best practice. Page
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