Re: [Groff] Regarding HTML rendering

2017-08-18 Thread Larry Kollar
Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > ... > > Converting markdown into acceptable > roff input is just not feasible - not only because there is no tool > to do it, but also because markdown is just not powerful enough, > even if you were willing to write a new program to do that. > > Besides, i hate the myt

Re: [Groff] Regarding HTML rendering

2017-08-18 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Fri, Aug 18, 2017, Steve Izma wrote: > It seems to me this argument implies a desire for a > general-purpose markup language for creating typeset documents, > which I think is an impossible goal. A couple of years ago I was consulted by a programmer tackling the "perfect markup language" proble

Re: [Groff] Regarding HTML rendering

2017-08-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> The formatted paper is online at > > http://www.schaffter.ca/pdf/linux-midi-orchestration.pdf The world is small – I'm one of the lilypond developers... Werner

Re: [Groff] Regarding HTML rendering

2017-08-18 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Fri, Aug 18, 2017, Werner Lemberg wrote: > > > The formatted paper is online at > > > > http://www.schaffter.ca/pdf/linux-midi-orchestration.pdf > > The world is small – I'm one of the lilypond developers... I was aware. The paper doesn't discuss lilypond at all since it isn't germane--so

Re: [Groff] Regarding HTML rendering

2017-08-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> The world is small – I'm one of the lilypond developers... > > I was aware. The paper doesn't discuss lilypond at all since it > isn't germane--sort of a shame since lilypond hands down beats > everything else out there when it comes to engraving. Well, as you correctly state, lilypond's mai

Re: [Groff] Regarding HTML rendering

2017-08-18 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Fri, Aug 18, 2017, Werner Lemberg wrote: > Well, as you correctly state, lilypond's main target is engraving. > However, I invite you as a MIDI expert to help improve lilypond's MIDI > capabilities :-) When I finish fighting with the MuseScore developers over the same issue. :) -- Peter Schaf

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

2017-08-18 Thread Dominic Jones
Dale Snell 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 to ''\[u0113]'', which gives me the message: > > > > warning: can't find special characte