Hello all,
I am new to the groff scene, having been introduced recently at a
tutorial by the brilliant and charming Peter Schaffter here in
Ottawa, Canada last week.
As I started to use it, I noticed this peculiarity. When my LANG
environment variable is set to en_US.UTF-8 which it generally is
I have a design document that I need to output in two forms: as a
properly typeset PostScript file (troff) and in plain text (nroff). I
want the latter not to have page breaks. I've tried a number of
things, but I have two problems:
1. I can't find a number register than I can tweak to change t
Have you tried ".ifn" and ".ift" (if nroff and if troff)?
as in:
.ift .pl 11i
.ifn .pl [something else]
I don't know about eliminating page breaks in nroff because I've
never needed that, but the .ifn and .ift were used frequenly in the
man macros when I was at HP (originated with AT&T troff ma
On Tuesday, 30 May 2006 at 21:55:45 -0600, Clarke Echols wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> I have a design document that I need to output in two forms: as a
>> properly typeset PostScript file (troff) and in plain text (nroff). I
>> want the latter not to have page breaks. I've tried a numbe
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 May 2006 at 21:55:45 -0600, Clarke Echols wrote:
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
I have a design document that I need to output in two forms: as a
properly typeset PostScript file (troff) and in plain text (nroff). I
want the latter not to have page break
> I have a design document that I need to output in two forms: as a
> properly typeset PostScript file (troff) and in plain text (nroff).
> I want the latter not to have page breaks.
Have a look how this problem is solved in an-old.tmac.
> 1. I can't find a number register than I can tweak to c
