Hi Colin and Branden,
Colin Watson wrote on Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 06:18:48PM +:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 03:02:49AM +1100, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>> At 2020-11-22T16:08:56+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>>> Sure. I dislike the concept of mdoc.local for more than one reason,
>>> but probably
[ Stripping the Debian bug from the Cc:; while this may be historically
interesting and also interesting for groff, i doubt this matters
for the Debian package.]
G. Branden Robinson wrote on Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 03:02:49AM +1100:
> At 2020-11-22T16:08:56+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> 2. The con
(This no longer has anything to do with Debian bug #421437, so I took
it off the cc.)
On 11/22/20, John Gardner wrote:
>> What do you think about a warning for drawing outside the page
>> boundaries?
>
> I can't see that benefiting anybody, quite frankly. Since all coordinates
> are precomputed,
\G. Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> At 2020-11-15T14:13:38+, Dorai Sitaram via wrote:
>> UTP strongly hints that the -ms macros have the end-of-input trap .em
>> pre-set to a defined macro called .EM, with the implication that if
>> the user wants to affect end-of-input behavior they can append
As a troff guy from the 1980's, I still have the docs that the computer
science department at UW Madison put in my hands. I just love that people
are trying to make troff better. Larry rocks.
I wish more people knew this.
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 09:55:17PM -0500, Larry Kollar wrote:
>
> \G. Br
Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>>> 2. The concept of encoding names and versions of all operating
>>> systems is not sustainable in the long run.
>
>> This was probably a product of its times; there was BSD, only one BSD,
>> and then there was System V, and the importance of that conflict caused
>>
Is there a recent version of the script 'fixmp' mentioned in the MetaPost
documentation? (It allows groff to accept MP-generated PS files.)
Google points me back to these archives for a 2006 version that no longer works.
Thanks--d
