For the Norwegian characters, you'll need to use constructions like "\[o/]"
and "\[ae]". Forgive me, I'm away from my computer right now, and I can't
remember how to specify the "a-with-ring" character. Read the man page for
groff_char(7); that has the whole list of special characters. Oh, and y
On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 01:31:06AM -0800, Dale Snell wrote:
> For the Norwegian characters, you'll need to use constructions like "\[o/]"
> and "\[ae]".
Alternatively, run your input file through "preconv" as the first
preprocessor.
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Colin Watson [cjwat...
At 2019-11-04T08:08:57+0100, Xianwen Chen (陈贤文) wrote:
> Dear list,
Hi Xianwen!
> Today is my second day trying out groff.
Welcome aboard!
> I have over a decade experiences with LaTeX and a few years
> experiences with markdown.
If you're familiar with basic concepts of typesetting you should
> First question is on Norwegian characters: ø, å, and æ. It seems that
> I cannot type them as plain text, because the produced PDF file gives
> funny output.
Files which contain Unicode characters need to be pre-processed with
preconv(1).
You can achieve this by running groff(1) with the `-k` sw
> In *roff languages
Just to clarify, Roff and TeX are similar in that their macro packages are
sometimes regarded as separate languages, especially if the macros
themselves are written like a DSL of sorts. mdoc(7) is a noteworthy example
of this.
When learning to use Groff for the first time, my
Hi Xianwen,
John wrote:
> When learning to use Groff for the first time, my biggest hurdle was
> figuring out where/what everything was. I went some time believing
> man(7) macros were a built-in part of the language. You can liken Roff
> and its macro-packages to TeX and LaTeX — the former is low
Hi friends
We are starting an association here and in order to do so we need to make a
minute of our founding meeting. I would of course like this to look as pro
as posible. I was wondering if some of you would have made a nice meeting
minute in pure groff og ms that i can use as a template?? Mayb
Hello,
I've used pic to create a business card. It contains a logo (written in
Postscript) that references a font not in the standard font set (font
name: TwCenMT-Regular).
I'm referencing this font only from inside the Postscript file and not from
my troff code.
The only way I've been able to c
