Hi Ingo,
> > - real number arithmetic to replace current integer arithmetic
>
> Do you really mean "replace", or rather something like "complement" or
> "provide in addition to"? If you do mean "replace", i fear
> compatibility issues. Besides, isn't integer arithmetics better
> suited to some
Werner LEMBERG :
> Do you like to contribute an SCons build file? It's always good to
> have more than a single choice. If it indeed proves as superior – in
> particular, if it runs on ancient platforms supported by autoconf and
> automake – we can move to that.
I fear the "ancient platforms" ar
Hi Eric and Peter,
Eric S. Raymond wrote on Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:26:46PM -0400:
>> Manpages
> I think we can be a little more specific here:
that's exactly what i meant, it certainly feels like this could be
more specific, but once you do word it more specifically, the result
no longer reflec
Nice saturday,
Peter Schaffter wrote:
|On Fri, Mar 14, 2014, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
|> well ok, i think i have something that i could post (after some
|> more checking, i.e., tomorrow).
|> What would you say about an additional --with-examples?
|
|What would be the point? PREFIX/doc/examp
Keith Marshall wrote:
|On 14/03/14 20:04, Peter Schaffter wrote:
|> Can't imagine a situation where 'make dist' would want to exclude
|> documentation. Assume nothing. :)
|
|Since the intended purpose of "make dist" is to create distribution
|tarballs, such as those published on FSF mirror
Hello groffers,
Before reading further, please remember that I switched from
groff to heirloom troff because groff was missing things
that I need. I nonetheless hope that my opinion might be of
some interest for you.
Peter Schaffter wrote:
> Here's a draft for a mission statement, based on di
Pierre-Jean wrote:
|And why not mentionning heirloom implementation ? Isn't it
|an important reference for anyone wishing to work on these
|features ?
I think Werner Lemberg also mentioned a clean and nicely scalable
object based implementation in that thread. That GNU Troff has.
--steffen
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:26:46PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Peter Schaffter :
> > The build system
> >
> > - streamline the build system to improve flexibility and portability
>
> Nothing you can ever do with autotools will ever be describable as
> 'streamlining'. It's a horrible, bloate
> IMO, "--without-doc" should not apply to the "make dist" goal.
Yep.
> I also think having a check here and there is not a bad thing. I'll
> add it for my patch.
OK.
> In fact it seems that AC_ARG_WITH doesn't allow to define an
> enumeration of allowed arguments, so that this is implied as
Ingo Schwarze :
> > - Increased use of browsers
>
> That's overstated. It is not just use of browsers that makes
> semantic markup desirable, it's also useful in its own right, for
> example to support semantic searching.
Nobody would be happier than me if semantic search were more than a
wish a
.. i've taken keithmarshall@ off Cc:, my mail-provider cannot
deliver to this address
Werner LEMBERG wrote:
|> IMO, "--without-doc" should not apply to the "make dist" goal.
|
|Yep.
|
|> I also think having a check here and there is not a bad thing. I'll
|> add it for my patch.
|
|
Hi
My groff experience is very limited.
I've been using latex for years, so
probably I just need to get used to
groff ways of cross-referencing.
I'd like to give a label to every
equation, and then use those labels
for cross-referencing, as in latex.
I've done someting like this with
mm EC + mmr
Hi,
Werner's latest commit adding meintro_fr broke the build.
Here is the tiny fix.
Yours,
Ingo
- 8< - schnipp - >8 - 8< - schnapp - >8 -
2014-03-15 Ingo Schwarze (tiny change)
* doc/Makefile.sub: Let the build access the preconv binary.
This
[See at end]
On 15-Mar-2014 20:54:10 Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> Hi
>
> My groff experience is very limited. I've been using latex for
> years, so probably I just need to get used to groff ways of
> cross-referencing.
>
> I'd like to give a label to every equation, and then use those
> labels fo
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> So I wanted to ask - what is the easiest
> way of achieving equation (or table,
> figure, etc. ) cross-referencing with groff?
> I've only tried mm and ms, but will try
> other macro packages if advised.
The most recent version of the mom macros im
Eric --
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> - Increased use of browsers shifts the commonest use cases for man pages
> in a direction that rewards structural rather than presentational markup.
This is a tad OT, but do you know for a fact there's an increased
use of browsers to read
> Werner's latest commit adding meintro_fr broke the build. Here is
> the tiny fix.
Thanks. I've committed a slightly extended patch.
Werner
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