Re: [Groff] pic - drawing a line back to the beginning

2006-10-17 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> # here's the part I'm interested in > line left from last box .w; > line up to 1st box .w + (-0.5,0); > arrow to 1st box .w; > .PE > > One can get a straight line by adjusting the coordinates in the next- > to-last line, although for a more complex chart (like the real one > was), it might t

RE: [Groff] pic - drawing a line back to the beginning

2006-10-17 Thread Ted Harding
On 17-Oct-06 Larry Kollar wrote: > I got busy learning pic today, since there was only a > tantalizing reference to a utility that doesn't seem to > exist anymore. :-) Turns out that pic is a fairly simple > way to produce flowcharts... mostly. I was surprised at > how quickly I got something that

[Groff] RTF

2006-10-17 Thread Juan M. Mendez
Greetings, I'm new to the list and to the world of typesetting, so I hope not to commit many offtopics to start with. Due to the work, I was looking for a way to automate the creation of documents for the Word (or Weird) text processor . It wasn't my decision to choose that platform so I tried

[Groff] http://unixtext.org/ (broken links)

2006-10-17 Thread Juan M. Mendez
I've not found any contact address for the authors of this page. When I was looking for documents, found this page and maybe the authors read this list. Almost all the links are broken, not any link contains the utp sources, anyway I found a copy here: http://groff.ffii.org/groff/contrib/docum

Re: [Groff] translations

2006-10-17 Thread D. E. Evans
You mean that you ask someone to translate the groff web page into a foreign language? Yes, that's what I mean. Well, before doing that it would be interesting to know which languages groff enthusiasts are really using -- I'm not talking about man pages but real documents... I agr

Re: [Groff] http://unixtext.org/ (broken links)

2006-10-17 Thread D. E. Evans
http://groff.ffii.org/groff/contrib/documentation/utp/ As a side note, the address for the mailing-list given there seems wrong also. I don't have access to the ffii.org page, so it has been abandoned. I hadn't delved into some of those extras. If there's anything from that site that yo

Re: [Groff] RTF

2006-10-17 Thread Larry Kollar
Juan M. Mendez wrote: Due to the work, I was looking for a way to automate the creation of documents for the Word (or Weird) text processor . Using the latest versions of groff, you can produce HTML that can be cleaned up enough to import directly into Word. I've done it before, with acce

Re: [Groff] http://unixtext.org/ (broken links)

2006-10-17 Thread Larry Kollar
Juan M. Mendez wrote: I've not found any contact address for the authors of this page. When I was looking for documents, found this page and maybe the authors read this list. You're right, they're broken. I'll take a look later today. I also plan to start UTP Revisited (the second edition)

Re: [Groff] translations

2006-10-17 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>Well, before doing that it would be interesting to know which >languages groff enthusiasts are really using -- I'm not talking >about man pages but real documents... > > I agree. German immediately comes to mind for me, and I have > considered Welsh, though I think a Welsh translatio

Re: [Groff] pic - drawing a line back to the beginning

2006-10-17 Thread Larry Kollar
Ted Harding wrote: If you have a designation of a point (such as "1st box .w") then you can get its x and y coordinates using ".x" and ".y". ... line up ( 1st box .w .y - last box .w .y ); arrow to 1st box .w; That worked - thanks much! -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t