[Groff] A little Greetings card

2009-12-28 Thread Ted Harding
Hi Folks, The following draws a pretty picture, which I send you with all my best wishes, hoping you had a good Christmas and will have a good New Year. Ted. .ds RED \X'ps: exec 10 0 setrgbcolor' .ds GR0 \X'ps: exec 00.5 0 setrgbcolor' .ds YEL \X'ps: exec 00 1 0 setcmykcolor' .

[Groff] grohtml again

2009-12-28 Thread Chuck Robey
I don't want to violate anyone's privacy, but would it be proper to ask the email address of the programmer who wrote the www.tmac code? I have some questions (and not an avalanche of them) which I'm afraid no one else can answer. I've never been especially good at git (personal prejudice I have

Re: [Groff] grohtml again

2009-12-28 Thread Keith Marshall
On Monday 28 December 2009 21:32:26 Chuck Robey wrote: > I don't want to violate anyone's privacy, but would it be proper > to ask the email address of the programmer who wrote the www.tmac > code? Did you read the header in www.tmac itself? There I see: |.ig |www.tmac - macro package for adding

Re: [Groff] A little Greetings card

2009-12-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> The following draws a pretty picture, which I send you > with all my best wishes, hoping you had a good Christmas > and will have a good New Year. Nice! I wish everybody the same. A small caution: Everyone who wants to try Ted's code should strip trailing whitespaces. Werner

Re: [Groff] grohtml again

2009-12-28 Thread Chuck Robey
Keith Marshall wrote: > On Monday 28 December 2009 21:32:26 Chuck Robey wrote: >> I don't want to violate anyone's privacy, but would it be proper >> to ask the email address of the programmer who wrote the www.tmac >> code? > > Did you read the header in www.tmac itself? There I see: Yeah, I lo

Re: [Groff] grohtml again

2009-12-28 Thread Robert Thorsby
On 29/12/09 12:01:07, Chuck Robey wrote: > Look, I think I'm going to probably bore > the list to death over the rather dense > topic of the html macros, so unless I get > some comments here and now, I'll take > this private to Gaius Mulley and Werner Lemberg. Bearing in mind that this is a low tr

Re: [Groff] grohtml again

2009-12-28 Thread Chuck Robey
Robert Thorsby wrote: > On 29/12/09 12:01:07, Chuck Robey wrote: >> Look, I think I'm going to probably bore >> the list to death over the rather dense >> topic of the html macros, so unless I get >> some comments here and now, I'll take >> this private to Gaius Mulley and Werner Lemberg. > > Bear

Re: [Groff] grohtml again

2009-12-28 Thread Robert Thorsby
On 29/12/09 12:35:37, Chuck Robey wrote: > You ever see the Sam's book on Unix system > typesetting? I think I saw a pdf of it on > the web a year or two ago, (I have TWO > printed copies of it!), and you ought to > consider looking at it, it's easily the most > readable things on all aspects of r

Re: [Groff] grohtml again

2009-12-28 Thread Chuck Robey
Robert Thorsby wrote: > On 29/12/09 12:35:37, Chuck Robey wrote: >> You ever see the Sam's book on Unix system >> typesetting? I think I saw a pdf of it on >> the web a year or two ago, (I have TWO >> printed copies of it!), and you ought to >> consider looking at it, it's easily the most >> reada

Re: [Groff] grohtml again

2009-12-28 Thread Miklos Somogyi
My bible is a well-worn photocopy of "Using nroff & troff" from 1990. I wish that a pdf of it would float around somewhere to download and search ... Miklos On 29/12/2009, at 01:37 PM, Chuck Robey wrote: Robert Thorsby wrote: On 29/12/09 12:35:37, Chuck Robey wrote: You ever see the Sa

Re: [Groff] grohtml again

2009-12-28 Thread Meg McRoberts
I just checked and Amazon has 9 used copies available, two for less that $10: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0810462915/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used Six are available at half.com: http://product.half.ebay.com/Unix-Text-Processing_W0QQtgZinfoQQprZ1500033 --- On Mon, 12/28/09, C

Re: [Groff] grohtml again

2009-12-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Look, I think I'm going to probably bore the list to death over the >> rather dense topic of the html macros, so unless I get some >> comments here and now, I'll take this private to Gaius Mulley and >> Werner Lemberg. Please don't. I haven't much time these days for groff... > Bearing in mi

Re: [Groff] grohtml again

2009-12-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Of course, I got this right after AI sent my mail to Gaius Mulley > and Werner Lemberg. I asked them to decide about bothering the > list, so I'll leave it up to them, such a thing as this is really, > really going to raise the noise level here (for the short term) so I > want to be certain I w

[Groff] Fw: the www.tmac macros

2009-12-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Back to the list... Werner --- Begin Message --- I finally got directed to read the boilerplate at the top of that file, so I got your names. I'd passed over it several times. I have some comments regarding the OLS/OLE, ULS/ULE, and DLS/DLE macros, and how best to integrate them along int

Re: [Groff] grohtml again

2009-12-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> You ever see the Sam's book on Unix system typesetting? There was a large project to retype the `Unix text processing' book with groff (with permission from the authors)! The result is available from here: http://groff.ffii.org/groff/contrib/documentation/utp/ Werner