Re: The 3-faces problem

2021-11-21 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi, Alex! At 2021-11-02T19:07:05+0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > I was using xface termincal, but I tried on xterm after your email and > see the same result. IF you have a big enough font size and print > them almost together, you'll be able to see the difference: > > $ cat undersc

Re: The 3-faces problem

2021-11-02 Thread Douglas McIlroy
The PostScript from groff -man (version 1.22.4) applied to > .RB [ U ] INT \fIN\fP _WIDTH is /F0 10/Times-Roman@0 SF 433.3(a\(b\) a\(b\))72 48 R([)108 84 Q/F1 10 /Times-Bold@0 SF(U)A F0(])A F1(INT)A/F2 10/Times-Italic@0 SF(N)A F1 (_WIDTH)A F0 226.78(c1)303.78 768 S 0 Cg EP This defines /F0 as r

Re: The 3-faces problem

2021-11-02 Thread Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
Hi, Branded! On 11/2/21 19:45, G. Branden Robinson wrote: Hi, Alex! At 2021-11-02T19:07:05+0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: On 11/2/21 18:49, G. Branden Robinson wrote: printf '_\\fB_\\fI_\\f(BI_\n' | nroff | cat -s Yes, I see 4 different glyphs. Okay, so that much is sane in ou

Re: The 3-faces problem

2021-11-02 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi, Alex! At 2021-11-02T19:07:05+0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > On 11/2/21 18:49, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > printf '_\\fB_\\fI_\\f(BI_\n' | nroff | cat -s > > Yes, I see 4 different glyphs. Okay, so that much is sane in our respective environments. :) > I was using xface ter

Re: The 3-faces problem

2021-11-02 Thread Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
On 11/2/21 18:49, G. Branden Robinson wrote: Hi, Alex! At 2021-11-02T17:57:28+0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: Hey Branden! I need your wisdom :) I hope to find some, someday... ;-) I'm facing the 3-faces problem right now. I'm trying to write the following senten

Re: The 3-faces problem

2021-11-02 Thread Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
Hi Tadziu, On 11/2/21 18:51, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: - It's all a single identifier, so breaking it into multiple lines to avoid using \f would hurt readability. I think it's a matter of debate whether .RB [ U ] INT \fIN\fP _WIDTH or .RB [ U ] INT\c .IB N _WIDTH is more readable.

Re: The 3-faces problem

2021-11-02 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> - It's all a single identifier, so breaking it into multiple > lines to avoid using \f would hurt readability. I think it's a matter of debate whether .RB [ U ] INT \fIN\fP _WIDTH or .RB [ U ] INT\c .IB N _WIDTH is more readable. In the latter at least it's obvious in which typeface

Re: The 3-faces problem

2021-11-02 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi, Alex! At 2021-11-02T17:57:28+0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > Hey Branden! > > I need your wisdom :) I hope to find some, someday... ;-) > I'm facing the 3-faces problem right now. > I'm trying to write the following sentence: > > [ > The

The 3-faces problem

2021-11-02 Thread Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
Hey Branden! I need your wisdom :) I'm facing the 3-faces problem right now. I'm trying to write the following sentence: [ The macros [U]INTN_WIDTH expand to the width in bits of these types (N). ] With the following requisites: - N is variable, and so (I think) I want it in ital