Hi John,
this seems a bold, novel, and interesting idea to me. I'm not yet
completely sure whether it's viable, but it might be. I'm not sure
how difficult it would be to implement in groff. In mandoc, it is
certainly possible.
The rest of this reply addresses a few details.
Yours,
Ingo
J
Hello Johann,
Johann Höchtl wrote:
> Is there any technical reason implied by troff why Sx - macros work, as
> you already described, by building a forward index whereas the TOC
> doesn't and therefore has to go to the end, as any other toc in
> single-pass g/troff macros I am aware of?
There'
On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 07:18:50AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> Subject: Re: [groff] 03/09: tmac/an-old.tmac: Stop remapping ` and '.
>
> Attached :-)
>
> I converted the font using `psf2bdf.pl` and `fontforge` (followed by a
> normalization run using `ttx` twice to disassemble and reassemble t
On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 23:24:49 +1100
John Gardner wrote:
> nobody in their right mind would deliberately write source-code in a
> proportional typeface, so we can trust the use of Georgia or
> Helvetica to indicate body text?stuff for reading and styling.
The C++ Annotated Reference Manual sets sou
On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 20:40:44 +1100
"G. Branden Robinson" wrote:
> Anyway, I'd appreciate feedback, positive or negative
Although a little chatty in places, it's a good starting point.
One difficulty (as ever) is defining the audience. To what degree is
the reader expected to know troff itsel
There's been a lot of discussion lately about the interpretation of
quotes and hyphens. I'm finding it hard to follow because there are
many parts: fonts, devices, macro packages, and implementations. Also
years, and recent commits.
I think some have espoused the behavior that the interpretati
Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>>> There's a Linux version too, if you're interested:
>>> https://github.com/talamus/solarize-12x29-psf
>>
>> A pity there’s no OpenType version.
>
> Attached :-)
Bitmap font embedded in a TTF? Looks nice at its native size, anyway.
— Larry
There's a Linux version too, if you're interested:
https://github.com/talamus/solarize-12x29-psf
>>>
>>> A pity there’s no OpenType version.
>>
>> Attached :-)
>
> Bitmap font embedded in a TTF?
Yep. This should be portable, contrary to the PSF version. No idea
whether a real outli
