Re: [groff] improve a few terminal renderings of special characters

2018-08-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Ingo, > > > +.tty-char \[HE] > > > > In the context of playing cards, single capital letters are used is > > king of clubs, `4D' is four of diamonds. If listing a hand using > > `\(CL', etc., it should be approximated using single letters, not > > the noisy `', over and over. > > I used that

Re: [groff] improve a few terminal renderings of special characters

2018-08-22 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Ralph, Ralph Corderoy wrote on Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:11:39AM +0100: > Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> Ralph Corderoy wrote: >>> Ingo Schwarze wrote: +.tty-char \[HE] >>> In the context of playing cards, single capital letters are used is >>> king of clubs, `4D' is four of diamonds. If listin

Re: [groff] improve a few terminal renderings of special characters

2018-08-22 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> \[u2661] uni2661 u2661 white heart suit > \[u2662] uni2662 u2662 white diamond suit > > [...] Should these two characters be removed from the manual page? I don't object. > They were added by wl@ in the monster commit 48615a444 on > 2003-02-23, but the commit messag

Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros

2018-08-22 Thread Pierre-Jean Fichet
Hello alls, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > Note that I'm not saying that you should generally not > write your own macros. On the contrary, I'm all for it. I must say that discussion gave me the uncomfortable feeling that people were advocating against writing personal macros. I think that writing a

Re: [groff] groff build problem

2018-08-22 Thread Heinz-Jürgen Oertel
Am Sonntag, 19. August 2018, 14:38:25 CEST schrieb Werner LEMBERG: > > using for the first time now OpenSuse Thumbleweed. Installed all tools (I > > hope) > > > > ./configure runs without problems. Had to do: > > sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/aclocal /usr/bin/aclocal-1.13 > > If you install from git, plea

Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros

2018-08-22 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018, Holger Herrlich wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 15:24:39 -0400 > > Peter Schaffter wrote: > > > set and change every applicable type parameter: family, font, size, > > colour, leading, spacing, indent, quad, fill, and vertical > > placement. > > > > In other words, mom expan

[groff] pdfpic.tmac

2018-08-22 Thread Heinz-Jürgen Oertel
Hello, I'm using groff and -Tpdf and pictures included with .PDFPIC. PDFPIC always crashes. The reason is, that pdfinfo has in its stdout text not only text but also a '\0' char. The effect is, that pdfinfo | grep gives an error message instead of the line containing the measurements. What I di

Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros

2018-08-22 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018, Pierre-Jean Fichet wrote: > Hello alls, > > Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > Note that I'm not saying that you should generally not > > write your own macros. On the contrary, I'm all for it. > > I must say that discussion gave me the uncomfortable feeling > that people were adv

Re: [groff] pdfpic.tmac

2018-08-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Heinz, > What I did, is adding --text to grep > > .sy pdfinfo @$1 | grep --text "Page *size" | .. `tr -d \\0' deletes ASCII NUL bytes, e.g. $ printf 'foo\0bar\n' | wc 1 1 8 $ printf 'foo\0bar\n' | tr -d \\0 | wc 1 1 7 $ -- Cheers, Ralp