Soon I'll need groff so I subscribed to this mailing list. I've read
many interesting and useful things here
but after the latest posts I am not sure that I would dare to ask a
question at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Things like these:
"Now, why on earth would you do this"
"Why are you messi
On 10/16/05, Miklos Somogyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[deeply felt commentary, which I agree with in its entirety.]
>
> I wish you good luck and less use of destructive phrasing.
>
> Miklos Somogyi
I share your vision. We are here to share our knowledge, learn from
those who know more than we do
Andreas, your post describes the "this is how it is" very well. I would
not argue with it.
What I am saying is that this is all wrong.
You say that bludgeoning is not personal, but educational. Please tell
this to the red faced guy.
And what is the purpose of telling people how silly and laz
Hallow
I have a very small and old laptop computer with a very small and
wonderful linux on it called Basiclinux 3.0. I have for some time bin
looking for some word processing program. That can output good looking
postscript (pdf) file. Abiword won't run on my VGA monitor and TeX is
way to big and
Hi Mikkel,
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, mikkel meinike wrote:
way to big and complex and I don't even do any mathematic. OK my local
lug advice my to try with groff *roff. So now I am here. First I 'd
like to know if you know if the groff packages that is in Slackware
4.0 can convert to postscript.
Su
On 16-Oct-05 mikkel meinike wrote:
> Hallow
> I have a very small and old laptop computer with a very small and
> wonderful linux on it called Basiclinux 3.0. I have for some time bin
> looking for some word processing program. That can output good looking
> postscript (pdf) file. Abiword won't run
> Soon I'll need groff so I subscribed to this mailing list. I've
> read many interesting and useful things here but after the latest
> posts I am not sure that I would dare to ask a question at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sometimes people underestimate the tone of a post. This happens to
everyone.
>
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, (Ted Harding) wrote:
The only thing I specially did (and indeed have done ever since),
since the machine was so weak, was to buy a PostScript printer.
With that, the PostScript output from groff went straight to the
printer and did not require conversion in the computer to an
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 05:15:59PM +1000, Miklos Somogyi wrote:
> Soon I'll need groff so I subscribed to this mailing list. I've read
> many interesting and useful things here
> but after the latest posts I am not sure that I would dare to ask a
> question at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Let me try to exp
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 07:34:09AM -0500, Alejandro López-Valencia wrote:
> I share your vision. We are here to share our knowledge, learn from
> those who know more than we do and help those who know less than we do
> so that they may one day surpass us; that is teach, in the true sense
> of the w
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 01:08:27AM +1000, Miklos Somogyi wrote:
> The only "positive" is on your side, that you feel superior to the
> other guy.
> But that's arrogance, not education, don't you agree?
I genuinely wondered why would someone overwrite system files,
when they will be overwritten ba
On 16-Oct-05 Daniel de Kok wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, (Ted Harding) wrote:
>> The only thing I specially did (and indeed have done ever since),
>> since the machine was so weak, was to buy a PostScript printer.
>> With that, the PostScript output from groff went straight to the
>> printer and di
I overwrote the existing groff 1.15 that was installed to the
system, so I am fairly certain. However, is there something I
can do to test it to make sure?
Now, why on earth would you do this
This could very well be the source of all your problems.
Why are you messing up with the carefull
mikkel meinike wrote:
I have a very small and old laptop computer with a very small and
wonderful linux on it called Basiclinux 3.0. I have for some time bin
looking for some word processing program. OK my local
lug advice my to try with groff *roff. So now I am here. First I 'd
like to kno
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 10:10:18PM -0400, Larry Kollar wrote:
> Isn't that a little harsh? I overwrite the default groff installed
> in MacOS X all the time. I simply built a .pkg file and re-install
> it when Apple's system updates make it necessary.
Granted it is. Two reasons:
1. On Op
Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mhmm, please bear in mind that many posters don't have English as a
mother tongue and that a post which should have a neutral sound gets a
harsh tone due to lacking language abilities.
I agree with Werner there. Most non-native users of English (and
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, (Ted Harding) wrote:
Hoping this helps,
Thanks! This was exactly the kind of information I was looking for.
With kind regards,
Daniel de Kok
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