Re: line width and table width

2025-02-25 Thread Francesco Ariis
Il 23 febbraio 2025 alle 21:40 G. Branden Robinson ha scritto: > You're doing some non-idiomatic things with the ms(7) package and the > tbl(1) preprocessor. > > The ms package does not expect you to reconfigure the formatter's line > length ad hoc within the document. Instead, if you require a >

Re: line width and table width

2025-02-24 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Sun, Feb 23, 2025, Dave Kemper wrote: > On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM G. Branden Robinson > wrote: > > You're getting into Bjarni territory here. (That's the groff > > community's version of the Dunning-Kruger syndrome.) > ... > (I'm sending this to the list rather than privately not because

Re: quality of assistance to *roff users (was: line width and table width)

2025-02-24 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[self-follow-up] At 2025-02-24T04:02:55-0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Anyone familiar with the discussions on this list of the > conflation of adjustment and alignment in *roff will understand > why the advice Bjarni offered was bad--it defeats the user's > configuration of th

Re: line width and table width

2025-02-23 Thread Dave Kemper
On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Please refrain from offering advice in areas beyond your expertise, at > least without admitting the same. > > You're getting into Bjarni territory here. (That's the groff > community's version of the Dunning-Kruger syndrome.) This com

Re: line width and table width

2025-02-23 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2025-02-23T20:13:59+0100, onf wrote: > Removing the -ms makes the issue disappear. The issue must originate > in ms's definition of the TS macro, No. > since adding > .ds TS > > at the beginning of the document fixes the issue even when -ms is > included. > > By the way, your table data in

Re: line width and table width

2025-02-23 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Francesco, At 2025-02-23T19:00:17+0100, Francesco Ariis wrote: > a question about table width and line width. > > Attached is an MRE which displays my problem, which you can > run with `groff -ms -t -Tpdf test.ms > out.pdf` > > In the document: > 1. line width is set to 17cms > 2. I inser

Re: line width and table width

2025-02-23 Thread onf
Hi Francesco, On Sun Feb 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM CET, Francesco Ariis wrote: > Attached is an MRE which displays my problem, which you can > run with `groff -ms -t -Tpdf test.ms > out.pdf` > > In the document: > 1. line width is set to 17cms > 2. I insert a table and would like it to fill the whole 17

line width and table width

2025-02-23 Thread Francesco Ariis
Dear groff users, a question about table width and line width. Attached is an MRE which displays my problem, which you can run with `groff -ms -t -Tpdf test.ms > out.pdf` In the document: 1. line width is set to 17cms 2. I insert a table and would like it to fill the whole 17cms 3. this does