Re: [Groff] paragraphs and .TS/.TE in man macros

2007-02-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Do you see any disadvantage? Can you check your man page corpus > whether authors ever use a combination of .IP/.LP/.PP/.P/.HP just for > the purpose of getting two empty lines? I have *never*, in fact, seen this done. If it were to happen, the doclifter tr

Re: [Groff] paragraphs and .TS/.TE in man macros

2007-02-04 Thread Michael(tm) Smith
"Eric S. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2007-02-04 03:14 -0500: > Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Do you see any disadvantage? Can you check your man page corpus > > whether authors ever use a combination of .IP/.LP/.PP/.P/.HP just for > > the purpose of getting two empty lines? > > I ha

Re: [Groff] paragraphs and .TS/.TE in man macros

2007-02-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Michael(tm) Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > is valid. It's not required to have content. > A instance won't generate validation errors. Huh? About a week ago I tried a change to the way I handled list terminations and xmllint complained biiterly about . -- http://www.catb.org/~esr

Re: [Groff] chess font?

2007-02-04 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> > I suspect the .SCRIPT-INPUT-BEGIN .SCRIPT-INPUT-END could > > be implemented as macros which map onto a similar escape > > technique as the suppression escapes \O etc. In any event > > the obvious advantage to this approach is that one can > > harness the ability of a scripting language to m

Re: [Groff] chess font?

2007-02-04 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Tadziu Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We also just _might_ write a *roff interpreter in Python and > skip groff altogether. doclifter has large portions of a troff interpreter inside it, because it has to :-). > Ah, but it's not quite as trivial as it initially appears. > You can't just transla

[Groff] Coloured equations?

2007-02-04 Thread Robert Marks
I'd like to have all eqn terms appear in a single colour. gfont chooses the eqn font, but there appears no easy way to have all en terms appear in a specific colour. Any suggestions? Thanks, Bob -- Robert MARKS, Australian Graduate School of Management, UNSW SYDNEY, NSW 2052, Austr