Re: [Groff] mom and the impatient beginner

2012-09-09 Thread mikkel meinike
I'd just felt like showing you the finished Poetry-pictograms that I have made with mom-groff. mikkel http://mimeini.blogspot.dk/2012/09/fire-segmenter.html

Re: [Groff] mom and the impatient beginner

2012-09-09 Thread Clarke Echols
On 09/09/2012 09:01 AM, mikkel meinike wrote: I'd just felt like showing you the finished Poetry-pictograms that I have made with mom-groff. mikkel http://mimeini.blogspot.dk/2012/09/fire-segmenter.html Er der en Dansker iblandt os? Hvordan kan det være? :-) (Nej, jeg er fuldstandig Amerik

Re: [Groff] Indexing these days with groff

2012-09-09 Thread Denis M. Wilson
Hello all, I have indexing in my -markup macros (which do the same sort of job as -mom but differently). It uses the conventions of makeindex, and creates several intermediate files (so has to be used with groff -U). The process is automatic using the .Index macro. You can find the source and docu

Re: [Groff] Indexing these days with groff

2012-09-09 Thread Ted Harding
I go with Denis on using makeindex! The standard troff tools for indexing and bibliography are too limited and inflexible for serious use, and are very difficult to modify, let alone to extend. For some of my views and suggestions on this, see posts to this list some years ago at: http://lists.

Re: [Groff] Indexing these days with groff

2012-09-09 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Although makeindex is a TeX program, it will output troff source > if given a suitable style file (which you can customise to your > pleasure). A *much* more flexible tool is xindy, written in clisp. Since it is part of texlive 2012, it is available ready-to-run for many platforms. http://w

Re: [Groff] passing groff special chars to pdfmark as bookmarks

2012-09-09 Thread smoore
Can you explain in your own words what is happening with .trin '\C'aq' please.   I have a text procesing sequence that does not afford the time at the moment to re-engineer how I build pdfs, gs / pdfroff. Relying on groff to rip postcript and using ps2pdf to complete the pdf, the above trin fu

Re: [Groff] passing groff special chars to pdfmark as bookmarks

2012-09-09 Thread Deri James
On Wednesday 05 Sep 2012 17:21:09 smo...@sacredlabor.com wrote: > Deri, > > That works right to PDF. Nice. > > For those that have used gs to assemble pdfs, setting various > pdf properties like permissions and pdf display variables, I wonder > how that is to be batched now that groff is going d

Re: [Groff] passing groff special chars to pdfmark as bookmarks

2012-09-09 Thread Deri James
On Sunday 09 Sep 2012 16:28:04 smo...@sacredlabor.com wrote: > Can you explain in your own words what is happening with > .trin '\C'aq' please. > > I have a text procesing sequence that does not afford the time > at the moment to re-engineer how I build pdfs, gs / pdfroff. > > Relying on groff

Re: [Groff] Compiler error

2012-09-09 Thread Deri James
On Tuesday 04 Sep 2012 07:32:48 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > The file you need to alter is font/devpdf/Foundry.in. [...] > > Deri, as I told you earlier: We need a configure test for that so that > people can specify a URW font directory. If it isn't found, the > `Foundry' script has to ignore URW