Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro

2014-09-21 Thread Deri James
On Sun 21 Sep 2014 06:38:42 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> A good starting point may be to implement a C/C++ library function, > >> to extract the MediaBox properties; that would open the gate to a > >> possible pdfbb request, which gtroff.exe could process internally. > > > > > > Alternatively, we c

Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro

2014-09-21 Thread Ted Harding
On 21-Sep-2014 10:52:38 Deri James wrote: > On Sun 21 Sep 2014 06:38:42 Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> >> A good starting point may be to implement a C/C++ library function, >> >> to extract the MediaBox properties; that would open the gate to a >> >> possible pdfbb request, which gtroff.exe could proces

Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro

2014-09-21 Thread Keith Marshall
On 21/09/14 11:52, Deri James wrote: > On Sun 21 Sep 2014 06:38:42 Werner LEMBERG wrote: A good starting point may be to implement a C/C++ library function, to extract the MediaBox properties; that would open the gate to a possible pdfbb request, which gtroff.exe could process intern

Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro

2014-09-21 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 03:29:18PM +0100, Keith Marshall wrote: > > > > Yes, it is. Someone on the list has contacted me, with a view to writing > > the > > code, > > Who might that be? If it was off-list, then we have a problem -- we all > need to be kept in the picture, with this sort of stu

Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro

2014-09-21 Thread Deri James
On Sun 21 Sep 2014 15:29:18 Keith Marshall wrote: > >> Good idea! > > > > > > > > Yes, it is. Someone on the list has contacted me, with a view to writing > > the code, > > Who might that be? If it was off-list, then we have a problem -- we all > need to be kept in the picture, with this sort o

Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-09-21 Thread Bertrand Garrigues
Hello Werner and all the list, On Mon, Sep 08 2014 at 08:11:04 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> I've just pushed a new branch 'automake2' (branched from master at >> commit 985b1eacaf24981f29bb4a5d53b8961dbafcdfef, about a month ago) >> where I split my original work into smaller commits. It's not co

Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro

2014-09-21 Thread Keith Marshall
On 21/09/14 20:04, Deri James wrote: > I'm glad that Ulrich has answered you, it was not my place to > identify the person as they contacted me privately, Sure, but we must strenuously discourage such private communications; how on earth can we expect to effectively co-ordinate development, if pot

Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro

2014-09-21 Thread Keith Marshall
On 21/09/14 20:50, Keith Marshall wrote: >> I'd be happy to send you the same email I sent to Ulrich but the >> email address;- >> >> Keith Marshall >> >> Bounces my emails > > Strange. It is working, but may be faulting intermittently; I'll log an > issue with SourceForge. https://sourc

Re: [Groff] mission statement source

2014-09-21 Thread Bertrand Garrigues
On Thu, Sep 18 2014 at 01:41:50 AM, Dave Kemper wrote: > Hi, > > Is it an oversight that the Mission Statement section of the project > page (http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/#mission-statement) contains > only two of the three groff source files needed to produce the > formatted mission statemen

Re: [Groff] Suggested patch to post-html.cpp

2014-09-21 Thread Bertrand Garrigues
Hi Robert, On Thu, Sep 18 2014 at 05:25:40 AM, Robert Bocchino wrote: > Attached for your review is a suggested patch to post-html.cpp. The > motivation is that grohtml occasionally bungles the formatting of > indented lists. Bug 30043 seems related, although that one is focused > mainly on int

Re: [Groff] Documentation for -mom

2014-09-21 Thread GregExp
Thanks a lot for your answers Ralph, Ingo and Dale. I got all what I need Cheers, Greg Le vendredi 19 septembre 2014 à 14:15 +0100, Ralph Corderoy a écrit : > Hi Ingo, > > > To mitigate that situation, i think it would help a bit to include a > > link to http://www.schaffter.ca/mom/mom-04.html

Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-09-21 Thread Bernd Warken
> Von: "Bertrand Garrigues" > > With commit a88127a4fecb307f26f2e217213d4a90e300d220 the automake2 > branch is now ready for more testing from other members of the list. > > git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/groff.git > git checkout automake2 > ./bootstrap > mkdir build > cd build > ../config

Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-09-21 Thread Bernd Warken
> Von: "Bertrand Garrigues" > Then you can check in the TESTS file for the other targets. Please note > that compared to the current build system: > - There are 2 new targets, 'make check' and 'make distcheck' > - Parallel build is supported. With both checks I got an error: 1) make che

Re: [Groff] Suggested patch to post-html.cpp

2014-09-21 Thread Robert Bocchino
On Sep 21, 2014, at 2:25 PM, Bertrand Garrigues wrote: > Hi Robert, > > I am not qualified to review your patch because I haven't studied > grohtml's code, but I've tested it on the few .html files that are built > by default in the 'doc' directory from pic.ms and webpage.ms, there are > a few

Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro

2014-09-21 Thread Deri James
On Sun 21 Sep 2014 20:50:37 Keith Marshall wrote: > On 21/09/14 20:04, Deri James wrote: > > I'm glad that Ulrich has answered you, it was not my place to > > identify the person as they contacted me privately, > > Sure, but we must strenuously discourage such private communications; > how on eart

Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro

2014-09-21 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014, Deri James wrote: > On Sun 21 Sep 2014 20:50:37 Keith Marshall wrote: > > On 21/09/14 20:04, Deri James wrote: > > > I'm glad that Ulrich has answered you, it was not my place to > > > identify the person as they contacted me privately, > > > > Sure, but we must strenuously d

Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro

2014-09-21 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014, Keith Marshall wrote: > On 18/09/14 14:42, Peter Schaffter wrote: > > Would an addition to the warning emitted by the macro be sufficient > > to alert users to the potential dangers of -U? > > Perhaps, but it's so much better if it can be avoided altogether. FWIW, > in my fo

Re: [Groff] Documentation for -mom

2014-09-21 Thread Peter Schaffter
Sorry not to get back on this right away. I've been away for a couple of days--work and computer free! On Fri, Sep 19, 2014, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > >> I am loking for an "easy" documentation about -mom. > >> This documentation should discribe how -mom macros are working. > > > Have you seen http