Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> > I remember reading (on this list) a PHD thesis by Han The Thanh (of
> > pdfTEX fame) on micro typography, although the original is now a
> > dead link I think I've found it here:-
> >
> > http://www.pragma-ade.com/pdftex/thesis.pdf
> >
> > Many thought provoking i
>> All his ideas (or rather, Hermann Zapf's ideas) have been
>> implemented in pdfTeX. However, this still doesn't solve the
>> original issue discussed in this thread.
>
> They are also implemented in Heirloom Troff, which I've used for the
> thesis of my wife, and which I'm still using for min
Clarke Echols:
> I know the 'bp is the cause, but don't know how to
> handle page numbering at the bottom of the page
> while suppressing the 'bp request after EOF is
> reached.
Do I understand you correctly that you are calling a
'bp explicitly in the end of your file? If so,
maybe
Hi Clarke,
> .de print_page_number
> .ev pr_print_pageno
> .\" Register `XX' is defined in the text source file:
> .\" XX=1 means title page which has no printed page >number.
> .\" XX=0 means other pages which all have printed page numbers.
> .
> . if !\\n(
On 01/08/2012 06:43 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Clarke,
.de print_page_number
.ev pr_print_pageno
.\" Register `XX' is defined in the text source file:
.\" XX=1 means title page which has no printed page>number.
.\" XX=0 means other pages which all have p
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012, Werner Lemberg wrote:
> Yes. It's probably heretic to say but for serious typography Heirloom
> troff offers much more possibilities.
Not heretical at all, merely true, as Pierre-Jean's example
demonstrates.
How radically different is Heirloom troff's code from groff's? Is
I have a paper composed in notrivial groff (uses pic,
eqn, tbl, and .PSPIC), which I'd like to submit to a
journal that takes any kind of digital text--as
long as it's Word or RTF. I haven't been able to find
any tool that offers much help in getting from here to
there. I'd be delighted if somebo
> I have a paper composed in notrivial groff (uses pic,
> eqn, tbl, and .PSPIC), which I'd like to submit to a
> journal that takes any kind of digital text--as
> long as it's Word or RTF. I haven't been able to find
> any tool that offers much help in getting from here to
> there. I'd be delighte
On 01/08/2012 08:47 PM, fov...@mail150.pair.com wrote:
I have a paper composed in notrivial groff (uses pic,
eqn, tbl, and .PSPIC), which I'd like to submit to a
journal that takes any kind of digital text--as
long as it's Word or RTF. I haven't been able to find
any tool that offers much help i
> How radically different is Heirloom troff's code from groff's?
Heirloom troff is essentially using TeX's algorithm (with slight
simplifications, AFAIK) to format paragraphs.
> Is there anything in groff that would conflict with implementations
> of .padj, .minss and .letadj? Their absence, or
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