Re: [Groff] Odd problem escaping `.'

2006-05-04 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
Keith Marshall wrote: On Wednesday 03 May 2006 5:25 pm, Louis Guillaume wrote: Joerg van den Hoff wrote: sorry to interfere, but \*[SN-DOT], \*[SN-NO-DOT] seem not be there in groff 1.19.1 (which is what I'm running on my Mac), at least they don't work and are not present in s.tmac. did they oc

Re: [Groff] Generating HTML / XML

2006-05-04 Thread Bill Ward
I've basically done what you suggested: Rewritten a subset of the ms macro package to emit html tags, plus some awk scripts to clean up the resulting output. Some things are kludgey. My goal was for the basic heading and paragraph macros to produce something like: .TL Hello World .SH 1 Subheadi

Re: [Groff] on MacOSX (was: Odd problem escaping `.')

2006-05-04 Thread Larry Kollar
Joerg van den Hoff wrote: well, MacOS is commercial and they seem to be reluctant to update things like, e.g., rsync or groff as fast as they could [...] Apple updates it when there's a security-related issue. I install groff in /usr/bin, wiping the Apple-supplied version... which means

Re: [Groff] on MacOSX

2006-05-04 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
Larry Kollar wrote: Joerg van den Hoff wrote: well, MacOS is commercial and they seem to be reluctant to update things like, e.g., rsync or groff as fast as they could [...] Apple updates it when there's a security-related issue. I install groff in /usr/bin, wiping the Apple-supplied versio

[Groff] problem with texi2pdf groff.texinfo

2006-05-04 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
hi, I tried to recreate a new pdf-version of the manual with texi2pdf groff.texinfo for the 1.19.2 release. I get (sorry for this...): ===CUT=== sed: 2: "s/\(^\|.* \)@documenten ...": whitespace after branch sed: 4: "s/\(^\|.* \)@document

[Groff] Suggested tbl enhancement

2006-05-04 Thread Larry Kollar
I tried poking at this once & got stuck... Anyway, it's kind of surprising that there's no "pointsize" global option for tables. I guess the typical workaround is to bracket the table with .ps requests. If anyone is bored enough to take a crack at this, I'll be glad to test it. -- Larry

Re: [Groff] Suggested tbl enhancement

2006-05-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Anyway, it's kind of surprising that there's no "pointsize" global > option for tables. Do we really need this? > I guess the typical workaround is to bracket the table with .ps > requests. Yes, maybe something like this (untested): .ds table-size 14.4 .am TS . ds orig-ev \\n[.ev]\"

[Groff] Some levity: How the other side does graphs

2006-05-04 Thread Larry Kollar
This turned up today on a FrameMaker list I'm subscribed to. Oh yeah, minor detail, you need Acrobat (not just Reader) to crop the drawn graph then re-import it. And I thought this GUI stuff was supposed to make things easier? Im talking about graphs where both the horizontal and/or vertic

[Groff] [SWISH-E] ANNOUNCE: Sman 1.00 Released (indexer for man pages)

2006-05-04 Thread Josh Rabinowitz
Hello Everyone: I've just released Sman version 1.00! Sman is a replacement for 'man -k' and 'apropos' based on Swish-e and Perl. Sman indexes the complete text of your system's man pages and provides a program to undate the index and perform fast searches on the index. Sman runs on all tested U

Re: [Groff] Suggested tbl enhancement

2006-05-04 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 4 May 2006 at 21:48:41 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> Anyway, it's kind of surprising that there's no "pointsize" global >> option for tables. > > Do we really need this? It sounds like a good idea, but there are so many potential enhancements that would make tbl easier to live wi

Re: [Groff] Suggested tbl enhancement

2006-05-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> It sounds like a good idea, but there are so many potential > enhancements that would make tbl easier to live with that it's almost > worth a rewrite. Hmm, can you post a TODO, please? Additionally, I ask you to further test Joachim's `HDtbl' package ftp://ftp.uni-heidelberg.de/pub/HDtbl/0.

Re: Re: [Groff] Suggested tbl enhancement

2006-05-04 Thread Larry Kollar
Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > It sounds like a good idea, but there are so many potential > > enhancements that would make tbl easier to live with that it's > > almost worth a rewrite. > > Hmm, can you post a TODO, please? My short list is primarily cosmetic (the goal is to require a minimal amoun