Peter Schaffter :
> 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
On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 01:57:31 PDT Eric S. Raymond wrote:
Here's what I think is going on. There are two different access cases
for man pages: directed and serendipitous.
In the directed case, you know the man page you want. You browse it locally,
through a terminal emulator or (if you're me)
Hi Charlie,
> Since then there have been lots of tweaks to automate as much as
> possible, but at the heart there is still a need to manually
> categorize the commands. I wish manpages would contain something that
> would help with that. The existing section numbers are next to
> useless, since
On 15-Mar-2014 09:52:59 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> 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. Besi
On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 09:40:44 PDT Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Charlie,
Since then there have been lots of tweaks to automate as much as
possible, but at the heart there is still a need to manually
categorize the commands. I wish manpages would contain something that
would help with that. The ex
Hi Ted,
> What eqn does when reducing point sizes for these is, at each stage,
> issue a troff request
>
> .ps (u;\\n[.ps]*7+5/10>?5)
>
> whose effect is that provided the result exceeds 5 [points] use
> this as the point-size; otherwise use 5 points.
>
> So, for instance, if initially in 10-po
Hi again Ted,
> > What eqn does when reducing point sizes for these is, at each stage,
> > issue a troff request
> >
> > .ps (u;\\n[.ps]*7+5/10>?5)
> >
> > whose effect is that provided the result exceeds 5 [points] use this
> > as the point-size; otherwise use 5 points.
> >
> > So, for instance,
Hi Ted,
> The values I chose for the constants in the expression were motivated
> by aiming for a reduction by 1/cuberoot(2) as one moves up one level
> of superscript, so that the point size of "z" in "$X sup V sup 2 sup
> z$" would be about half that of X: cuberoot(2) = 1.26, 14/11 = 1.27 --
> b
On 16-Mar-2014 18:42:43 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Ted,
>
>> What eqn does when reducing point sizes for these is, at each stage,
>> issue a troff request
>>
>> .ps (u;\\n[.ps]*7+5/10>?5)
>>
>> whose effect is that provided the result exceeds 5 [points] use
>> this as the point-size; otherwise
On 16-Mar-2014 19:38:25 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Ted,
>
>> The values I chose for the constants in the expression were motivated
>> by aiming for a reduction by 1/cuberoot(2) as one moves up one level
>> of superscript, so that the point size of "z" in "$X sup V sup 2 sup
>> z$" would be about h
Hi folks,
In the last few weeks, there's been some confusing mention of manpages
on this list. Confusing because some of the issues raised, in my eyes,
aren't really issues at all. So I thought I'd pipe up in the hopeful
interests of clarity.
To begin on familiar ground, by manpages I mean
> Von: "Ralph Corderoy"
>
> > I tried to use it on the way I found it here:
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2005-10/msg00087.html
> >
> > groffer --ps table
> >
> > It doesn't work at all for me. The terminal freezes.
> > I have to make ctrl+c to get a new command prompt.
>
> I'
Kristaps Dzonsons :
> Browsers are confusing because HTML doesn't play with
> character-driven media. And roff(7), into which groff(1) translates
> man(7) and mdoc(7), is (significantly?) character-driven. We hack
> around this by converting -Tascii output into -wrapped
> documents. But that's n
Hi Ted,
> 'eqn' does not put the "z" in, so I think between us we have uncovered
> a deficiency in 'eqn'. Quite where in the 'eqn' code this lurks is not
> obvious (to me at the moment).
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/src/preproc/eqn/box.cpp#n268
void set_script_size()
> printf(".ps (u;\\n[.ps]*7+5/10>?%d)\n", minimum_size);
A bug, introduced in 2002 by Tadziu :-) To be device-independent,
`minimum_size' must have the `z' scaling indicator, as your
experiments clearly show.
Fixed in git, and thanks for the report.
Werner
On 3/15/14, Pierre-Jean wrote:
>> . Implement TeX's paragraph formatting or something similar - I
>>consider groff's line-oriented paragraph formatting as its weakest
>>point. See heirloom troff for an example how this could be
>>implemented.
>>
>> http://heirloom.sourceforge.ne
>> > groffer --ps table
>> >
>> > It doesn't work at all for me. The terminal freezes.
>> > I have to make ctrl+c to get a new command prompt.
>
> It seems that the bug comes from groff, not only from groffer. Can
> anyone try to fix this bug?
Please describe the problem in more detail.
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