[Groff] once more hdtbl

2010-02-03 Thread Joachim Walsdorff
Larry and Werner, thanks for spending your time to improve hdtbl. It's a good idea to seperate hdtbl- and example stuff into hdmisc.tmac respectively common.roff. But some little things now seem to be wrong. 1) In fonts_x.in und fonts_n.in: .so examples/common.roff is missing. 2) I would re

Re: [Groff] Another hdtbl patch

2010-02-03 Thread Larry Kollar
Werner LEMBERG wrote: Actually, to "groff_hdtbl.man" to include details about what needs to be initialized before creating tables. Thanks! However, documentation of the `pv' macro is still missing. Honestly, I'm not really happy about pv's strange calling sequence to use it for initializatio

Re: [Groff] Another hdtbl patch

2010-02-03 Thread Mike Bianchi
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 02:08:47PM -0500, Larry Kollar wrote: > : > This actually brings up something that has been bugging me for a while, > and I think deserves its own thread: we should come up with some > namespace guidelines for macro packages, especially for internal-use > macros, to

[Groff] Re: once more hdtbl

2010-02-03 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> thanks for spending your time to improve hdtbl. It's a good idea to > separate hdtbl- and example stuff into hdmisc.tmac respectively > common.roff. But some little things now seem to be wrong. [...] I leave this to Larry :-) > And in groff_hdtbl.man should be described only hdtbl specific >

Re: [Groff] Another hdtbl patch

2010-02-03 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> we should come up with some namespace guidelines for macro packages, > especially for internal-use macros, to prevent conflicts. Whatever > we agree on could go in the texinfo document. Yeah. I'm open to any suggestions :-) Werner

Re: [Groff] Another hdtbl patch

2010-02-03 Thread Robert Thorsby
On 04/02/10 06:08:47, Larry Kollar wrote: > This actually brings up something that has been bugging me for a > while, and I think deserves its own thread: we should come up with > some namespace guidelines for macro packages, especially for > internal-use macros, to prevent conflicts. Whatever

[Groff] www.tmac: apparent error and comments re man page

2010-02-03 Thread Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph.
Hello: I've been experimenting with the -Thtml macro package which employs www.tmac. In trying to get "IMG" and "PIMG" to function, I noted that the macro definitions seemed to have the arguments confused when interpreting the width and height arguments. As well, the IMG macro appears to be look

Re: [Groff] Another hdtbl patch

2010-02-03 Thread Mike Bianchi
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:43:40AM +1100, Robert Thorsby wrote: > On 04/02/10 06:08:47, Larry Kollar wrote: > > This actually brings up something that has been bugging me for a > > while, and I think deserves its own thread: we should come up with > > some namespace guidelines for macro package