On Thu 24 Sep 2015 18:47:19 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> It may pre-date your time on this list, but some of us here re-entered
> the book as troff source from the scan after I got Tim O'Reilly's
> permission. http://home.windstream.net/kollar/utp/
>
> Cheers, Ralph.
You can retrieve the pdf with "cl
Suppose one wants to control the shape of filled text so it
fits in a figure, for example a triangle or disc. In groff
one would set a trap to change indent and/or line length on
every line. The traps could be set all at once in advance,
or more elegantly by a self-resetting trap macro.
Examples
Hello Doug,
> Examples of figurate text appear in Knuth's paper on
> the placement of line breaks. How would the changing indent
> and length parameters be expressed in TeX?
this is in general described in the TeXbook on page 101 for the \parshape
command.
There one can set \parshape=n i1 l1 i2
> The archive of the Bell Labs Journal and the technical reports
> seem to be available at https://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bell-labs-journals
> but I didn't go through the indiviudual references. (I did once,
> to download them, but that was before I read roff(7) now.)
>
> The Ossana paper is avai
