On 30-Jul-11 06:08:55, Heinz-Jürgen Oertel wrote:
> Am Samstag 30 Juli 2011 schrieb Deri James:
>
>> I think this could be because tbl needs to know the max width of each
>> column
>> before starting to output, so when considering the first column it
>> will have to
>> examine the width of \*[lm
Hi Mike,
> As a *roff user since the mid-1970s I am all too aware that to be good
> at this you have to know and _understand_ a lot of details about the
> document models (as represented by the different macro collections:
> man, mm, mom, ms ...) and the fundamental commands, registers, etc.
> To
Hi Ted,
> Heinz-Jürgen Oertel wrote:
> > As a work around in such cases, we define the number register in the
> > first row.
This works, but I could imagine a case where the width of the text
matters and the preprocessor(s) are causing the register to increment
more than once per occurrence, e.g.
On 30/07/11 00:31, Anton Shepelev wrote:
> Ralph Corderoy:
>> Is it non-standard? I thought the normal way was
>> to set up two passes, or more strictly a loop
>> until everything settles down into place, as this
>> is how TeX does it too IIRC. Not that TeX's way
>> of doing anything nec
On 30-Jul-11 10:35:44, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Ted,
>
>> Heinz-Jürgen Oertel wrote:
>> > As a work around in such cases, we define the number register in the
>> > first row.
>
> This works, but I could imagine a case where the width of the text
> matters and the preprocessor(s) are causing t
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> simple package like ms (or perhaps mom; I've not used it)
The "I haven't used/checked out mom" thing has come up a couple of
times in this thread (with respect to introducing groff to novices),
which is funny since mom already implements most of the pr
Hi Peter,
> In other words, mom's already the "front door": a conceptually easy,
> flexible set of macros that's perfect for beginners, serves the needs
> of the more experienced, and leads naturally to greater exploration of
> groff itself.
It does sound mighty fine and I've not looked at it clo
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 01:22:53PM -0400, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> The "I haven't used/checked out mom" thing has come up a couple of
> times in this thread (with respect to introducing groff to novices),
> which is funny since mom already implements most of the proposals
> being made, viz:
>
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011, Mike Bianchi wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 01:22:53PM -0400, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> > The "I haven't used/checked out mom" thing has come up a couple of
> > times in this thread (with respect to introducing groff to novices),
> > which is funny since mom already implement
Ralph --
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > In other words, mom's already the "front door": a conceptually easy,
> > flexible set of macros that's perfect for beginners, serves the needs
> > of the more experienced, and leads naturally to greater exploration of
> > groff itself.
>
>
Peter Schaffter:
> The "I haven't used/checked out mom" thing has
> come up a couple of times in this thread (with
> respect to introducing groff to novices), which is
> funny since mom already implements most of the
> proposals being made, viz:
> [...]
In my case this was due to lac
Hi Peter,
> Terminal copy, via -Tascii or -Tutf8, works with relatively
> straightforward documents, but no attempt has been made to support it
> fully.
That's better than I thought... Given the inherent limitations one
can't expect much more. I'll try and move reading about mom up the
"list".
Hello all,
I have found what seems to be a bug in m.tmac. The
display-start macro stored the current indent into a
register and used its values in the dispaly-end
macro. This didn't work when, for example, a display
wrapped a list having another display as its item.
In the attached patch,
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