Re: [Groff] Sun's troff now available

2006-06-26 Thread Ted Harding
On 25-Jun-06 Peter Schaffter wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2006, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> .fzoom >> >> Apply a scaling factor to a font. Useful to harmonize the size >> of different fonts like Times and Helvetica if simultaneously. > > Brilliant. Also very useful is one (say) interpolate

[Groff] generating macro files

2006-06-26 Thread Erich Hoffmann
Hello all. I'm rather hesitating to present my project here which perhaps does not make sense to anyone but myself. It is a tmac file that formats and outputs tmac files, called "ac.tmac". The tarball is in bz2 format 15KB size (tarball with ac.tmac alone 9,5KB), containing the tmac file itse

[Regexp] Hola

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Re: [Groff] Sun's troff now available

2006-06-26 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006, Ted Harding wrote: > > [Peter's fascinating tour of the Typesetting Museum snipped] Makes me sound like a fossil. :) > I have to agree with this. Whenever I have wanted to produce > fine-tuned output, I wait until I'm sure the document is in final > form. Then you can inte

Re: [Groff] generating macro files

2006-06-26 Thread Robert Goulding
This looks fascinating. It would be very useful for documenting some of the less user-accessible tmac packages (-me, especially). Can you make it available somewhere for download? - Robert. On Jun 26, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Erich Hoffmann wrote: Hello all. I'm rather hesitating to present my pr

Re: [Groff] Sun's troff now available

2006-06-26 Thread Ted Harding
On 26-Jun-06 Peter Schaffter wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006, Ted Harding wrote: > [...] >> Once again, I suspect that all this kind of thing could be >> helped by pre-output access to the finally formatted output >> line (since the mechanism I describe above amounts to this, >> but riding a mule to

Re: [Groff] Sun's troff now available

2006-06-26 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006, Ted Harding wrote: > > FWIW, back in the Museum, even though galleys were set from > > what amounted to "source files", the workstations had a > > continuously updating "status line" > > I'm wondering if this is the kind of "pre-output access" you're > > envisaging. > Sort o