Re: [Groff] Re: Info versus man

2005-10-27 Thread Keith MARSHALL
Larry Kollar wrote: > Now I don't blame you for balking; autoconf is a hideous beast > & I don't like to poke around in there either. :-) Oh, I wouldn't go that far. Autoconf isn't so bad, once you get used to it -- much easier than trying to write a configure script by hand, without tripping ove

[Groff] Localization question

2005-10-27 Thread Fabrice Ménard
Hi, I'm writting a package macros for my customers in France. The goal is to localize all the standard packages (ms, me, mm and mom) in one place. By this way users invoke groff in this way: groff -me -m fr XXX for the french localization. Unfortunatly, the ms package defines a TOC string

Re: [Groff] Spelling Tip

2005-10-27 Thread Blake McBride
While we are on the subject of pet peeves, the thing that irks me is the use of 'alot' which isn't a word. It should be 'a lot'. You know, I like ice cream a lot. At 06:38 AM 10/24/2005, Keith MARSHALL wrote: Citing no one in particular, and without intending any offence, I've noticed this c

Re: [Groff] Re: Info versus man

2005-10-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Attempting to build from CVS, without texinfo installed, or with > texinfo version < 4.8, causes make to abort at the point where the > info files should be compiled. Immediately typing `make' again > resumes the build, which apparently completes successfully, but > leaves corrupt info files in