Re: [Groff] Regarding HTML rendering

2017-08-17 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Mikkel, > As you can see, there is also a mistake with the colors. I would also > like to receive suggestions for how this error can be eliminated in > the HTML rendering. Here's how I worked out what the problem was. $ printf '%s\n' \ > 'rod\m[red]knight\m[]rod' \ > 'rod\

Re: [Groff] Regarding HTML rendering

2017-08-17 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Mikkel, Peter wrote: > Ingo wrote: > > So technically, the best way to transform groff_mom(7) documents > > into HTML would be to parse a high-level MOM node tree and convert > > that directly to HTML, without going through troff(1) at all, like > > mandoc(1) does it for the mdoc(7) language. >

[Groff] pdfmom warning: can't find special character `u0065_0304'

2017-08-17 Thread Dominic Jones
Good morning, I'm trying to insert an e with a macron (unicode u0113) in a document using pdfmom. I've tried several ways of representing the character in addition to ''\[u0113]'', which gives me the message: warning: can't find special character `u0065_0304' The character is simply missi

Re: [Groff] pdfmom warning: can't find special character `u0065_0304'

2017-08-17 Thread Dale Snell
On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 05:57:18 -0600, in message 20170817055718.b8d3688fb175223088a8e...@xmission.com, Dominic Jones wrote: > Good morning, > > I'm trying to insert an e with a macron (unicode u0113) in a document > using pdfmom. I've tried several ways of representing the character > in addition

Re: [Groff] Regarding HTML rendering

2017-08-17 Thread Steve Izma
On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 08:28:53PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Subject: Re: [Groff] Regarding HTML rendering > ... > The roff language is a poor fit for what HTML excels in, > namely, hierarchical representation of information and semantic > markup. The HTML language is a poor fit for what groff

Re: [Groff] Regarding HTML rendering

2017-08-17 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Steve, Steve Izma wrote on Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 04:52:56PM -0400: > A relatively simple notation like Markdown would also work, I agree with all you are saying except this. The OP is certainly better off writing his documents in proper roff(7) or groff_mom(7) and living with slighly quirky H

Re: [Groff] Regarding HTML rendering

2017-08-17 Thread Steve Izma
On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 12:33:12AM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Subject: Re: [Groff] Regarding HTML rendering > > Steve Izma wrote on Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 04:52:56PM -0400: > > > A relatively simple notation like Markdown would also work, > > I agree with all you are saying except this. > > Th