Hi Frank,
Am 23.01.2013 um 22:53 schrieb Frank Jahnke:
> I would like to revisit a topic that has come up from time to time over
> the years but really has not been solved. That is wrapping text around
> figures and their captions.
Yes, I am still aware of this topic and it still has a place o
Am 25.01.2013 00:52, schrieb Colin Watson:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:54:43PM +0100, Bernd Warken wrote:
>> This mail goes to the Debian admins. I think that's mostly
>> Colin Watson.
>
> Exclusively me; I have no co-maintainers of the groff package at
> present. That said, the General Resolu
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:41:45AM +0100, walter harms wrote:
> Am 25.01.2013 00:52, schrieb Colin Watson:
> > At present, I see no need to rock the boat by changing anything; the
> > dual-licensing of documentation files seems adequate.
>
> NTL, for some people that is an issue and i am not a fri
Hello all,
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:02:58 +0100
Patrik Schindler wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
> Am 23.01.2013 um 22:53 schrieb Frank Jahnke:
>
> > I would like to revisit a topic that has come up from time to time
> > over the years but really has not been solved. That is wrapping
> > text around figur
Hi Denis,
> What I cannot see is how to wrap text round a non-centred pic, or even
> harder, something like:
>
>
>
> x .-. xx
> x | | x
Hello Ralph,
The basic problem is to split the lines into a lot of segments
of different lengths -- pasting the segments into place
would then be possible. The solution to the centred picture is to
make the line length equal to the left/right margin, and paste
each with one-line traps (or the dive
I will move all man-pages where I'm among the authors from FDL to GPL.
Next I will transform all GPL man-pages into the following structure:
###
.TH ... @MAN1EXT@ "@MDATE@" "Groff Version @VERSION@"
.SH NAME
... \- ... groff ...
.
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.\" The .SH was moved to th
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:42:05 +0100 (CET)
"Bernd Warken" wrote:
> So which license should we prefer for documentation files:
> - make all documentation files into GPL
> - make all documentation files into FDL
> - keep the licenses of all files as they are
I have an innocent, basic question: Why
> Von: "James K. Lowden"
>
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:42:05 +0100 (CET)
> "Bernd Warken" wrote:
>
> > So which license should we prefer for documentation files:
> > - make all documentation files into GPL
> > - make all documentation files into FDL
> > - keep the licenses of all files as they ar
> The basic problem is to split the lines into a lot of segments of
> different lengths -- pasting the segments into place would then be
> possible.
We are leaving the area of automatic text processing and entering the
realms of a visual layout program. It's OK to have an image centered,
since t
> .\"
> .SH "AUTHOR"
> .\"
> .author
> .
> .
> .\"
> .SH "COPYING"
> .\" --
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:48:20 +0100 (CET)
"Bernd Warken" wrote:
> By public domain, the OS Unix is free for all, so it is free for me.
> So it belongs to me. So I am free to say that it is no more free to
> anyone else
A copyrighted publication can include works in the public domain, but
those w
> Von: "Werner LEMBERG"
>
>
> > It seems necessary to have the leading .TH and .SH at the top before
> > the "Legalese".
>
> Yes. Have a look at some changes done by Eric S. Raymond to get a
> structure which is easily parseable by `doclifter'.
I checked what Eric wrote in the Changelogs. But he
"Bernd Warken" wrote:
|I will not follow that line. A roff that accepts only 2-letter-macros
|today has no chance to survive.
|
|The original RUNOFF had very long command names, for example
|.ADJUST
|
|Each command had an abbreviation of 2 letters, with the lang name as the
|standard. But
Hi Bernd,
> I will move all man-pages where I'm among the authors from FDL to GPL.
Out of curiousity, can you do that without the other authors' explicit
agreement?
Cheers, Ralph.
> Von: "Ralph Corderoy"
>
> > I will move all man-pages where I'm among the authors from FDL to GPL.
>
> Out of curiousity, can you do that without the other authors' explicit
> agreement?
>
> Cheers, Ralph.
Of course I will ask them privately.
Bernd Warken
>> I will move all man-pages where I'm among the authors from FDL to
>> GPL.
>
> Out of curiousity, can you do that without the other authors' explicit
> agreement?
Actually, the authors have assigned the copyright to the FSF, so Bernd
has to ask the FSF (and only the FSF) how to proceed. I'm n
> |I protest against this bullshit and use long macro names. So the
> |weak commercial roff programs should see where they are. Forget
> |about them.
>
> Wow! Are you willing to overcome one restriction all roffs afaik have
> and that makes me write terrible crap like
>
> .ds S:LIST_BULL
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