[Groff] refer warnings

2006-06-14 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
hi, I asked this some 6 weeks ago but got no answers. hoping that the mail maybe reaches some other list members this time I dare to repeat my question: after upgrading to 1.19.2 I get new warnings from refer which were'nt there previously: refer:./test:4: nothing to reference (probably `

Re: [Groff] tables in a macro

2006-06-14 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
[snip] That was supposed to have been "... simply isn't there in _the_ macro that we use ..." (I shouldn't try to explain things in a hurry.) Anyhow, here's a little example to illustrate further the behavior of tbl/troff: .\" tbl .de HR .br \v'-.25m'\D'l \\n(.lu 0' .. .sp 3c .ll 7.5c .HR .ce

Re: [Groff] refer warnings

2006-06-14 Thread Robert Goulding
On Jun 14, 2006, at 6:15 AM, Joerg van den Hoff wrote: hi, I asked this some 6 weeks ago but got no answers. hoping that the mail maybe reaches some other list members this time I dare to repeat my question: after upgrading to 1.19.2 I get new warnings from refer which were'nt there previ

[Groff] The permuted index from Hell

2006-06-14 Thread Larry Kollar
So I got this bright idea to build a permuted index for the MIBs we support in our products at work. It might be helpful for customers who are trying to figure out which MIB object would have the information they're looking for. So I grabbed the textutils package and built it, checking over

Re: [Groff] tables in a macro

2006-06-14 Thread Erich Hoffmann
Am Dienstag, 13. Juni 2006 15:34 schrieben Sie: > > > For tables in macros please have a look at the hew hdtbl > > > package in the CVS. > > > > Thank you. I downloaded version 0.91 from > > the homepage, but with -Thtml it outputs a mass of > > -tags. > > Ah, hdtbl isn't yet set up for HTML outpu

Re: [Groff] The permuted index from Hell

2006-06-14 Thread Clarke Echols
When I first had responsibility for HP's manpages, I was completely appalled at the uselessness of the permuted index that was taken from the NAME line. For example, on cp(1), the line was: cp, mv, ln - copy, move, or link files I solved the problem by embedding comments in each file such as