[Groff] mom macros (display) problem

2005-09-22 Thread Arun Swarup
Hi all! I have a problem with groff and mom macros I am using the mom macros (v1.1.4 i think!) and groff (v1.18.1.1) on my Fedora Core 4 machine Now, when i try to process a document with groff & mom, an 'A' is converted to a ']' and similarly, many letters are displayed improperly This i

[Groff] newbie help

2005-09-22 Thread Arun Swarup
Hi, I am new to troff and I want some help I wanted to use troff (groff, actually) to write a paper & the 'mom' macros had some problem (i posted that a while ago) So, now, there are many macro-packages me, ms, mm, man that I glanced at So, which macro-package do you suggest me to use? what are

[Groff] testing for a font in a macro

2005-09-22 Thread Jason St Armand
Hi, is there a way to check for the existance of a font before setting it ? I am trying to set the font to CR which works for postscript output, but when I preview with -T ascii I get a warning message about CR not being available. I am happy to ignore the error, but ideally would like to substi

Re: [Groff] mom macros (display) problem

2005-09-22 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005, Arun Swarup wrote: > Hi all! > > I have a problem with groff and mom macros > > I am using the mom macros (v1.1.4 i think!) and groff (v1.18.1.1) > on my Fedora Core 4 machine > > Now, when i try to process a document with groff & mom, an 'A' is > converted to a ']' a

Re: [Groff] testing for a font in a macro

2005-09-22 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005, Jason St Armand wrote: > Hi, > > is there a way to check for the existance of a font before setting it > ? I am trying to set the font to CR which works for postscript > output, but when I preview with -T ascii I get a warning message about > CR not being available. > > I a

Re: [Groff] testing for a font in a macro

2005-09-22 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> is there a way to check for the existance of a font before setting > it? >From the NEWS file regarding the latest groff version (1.19.2): o Two new conditional operators `F ' and `S ' have been added. `F' is true if a font exists. `S' is true if a style has been registered.

Re: [Groff] newbie help

2005-09-22 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> So, now, there are many macro-packages me, ms, mm, man that I glanced at > So, which macro-package do you suggest me to use? what are the uses of > each package? For man pages, use man or mdoc. For other documents it's a matter of taste whether to use me, ms, or mm. ms has probably the bigges

Re: [Groff] newbie help

2005-09-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 22 September 2005 at 19:16:28 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> So, now, there are many macro-packages me, ms, mm, man that I glanced at >> So, which macro-package do you suggest me to use? what are the uses of >> each package? > > For man pages, use man or mdoc. For other documents i

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