Re: Huge Filesize of PS file 12M

2021-01-21 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> So thank you for the tip. I disabled the fonts in the /devps/download file > and it went from 12MB to 92K so that is already a big step forward. > Is there a better way to disable the embedding of fonts ? Not that I'm aware of. > Because I still see a lot of this : > " > grops begin/DEFS 1 di

Re: Escaping hyphens ("real" minus signs in groff)

2021-01-21 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Hello Branden, On 1/21/21 7:12 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > [looping in groff@ because I'm characterizing an unresolved argument and > people may want to dispute my claims] > > Hi Michael! > > At 2021-01-20T22:03:12+0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> Hi Branden, >> >> I wonder if I

Re: Escaping hyphens ("real" minus signs in groff)

2021-01-21 Thread Deri
On Thursday, 21 January 2021 11:03:13 GMT Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > And I mean copy-and-paste not just from PDF but from a terminal window. > > Yes, but I have a question: "\-1" renders in PDF as a long dash > followed by a "1". This looks okay in PDF, but if I copy and paste > into a

Re: adjustment of text blocks in tables (was: long nroff tables)

2021-01-21 Thread James K. Lowden
On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:46:24 +1100 "G. Branden Robinson" wrote: > It would be really nice if tbl(1) could output HTML itself. Hmm, from 10,000 feet that doesn't look terribly hard. Certainly tbl input provides all the requisite information needed for an HTML table. mandoc claims to do it alread

Re: adjustment of text blocks in tables (was: long nroff tables)

2021-01-21 Thread Oliver Corff
Hi, there seems to be at least one effort, 20 years ago, to produce true HTML output. I located "troffcvt: troff-to-XXX Conversion Software" by Paul DuBois. If I understand correctly, this was/is available in Ubuntu distributions. Here is the link: http://www.snake.net/software/troffcvt/ Haven'

Re: Escaping hyphens ("real" minus signs in groff)

2021-01-21 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Michael! At 2021-01-21T12:03:13+0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > I appreciate your long answer *very* much. But, I'm glad you started > with the short answer :-). Cool! But beware, from such pressures is the practice of top-replying born... ;-) > > Another issue to consider is tha