Re: gropdf landscape orientation support (was: [groff] 04/40: [gropdf]: Provide more info in diagnostic message.)

2022-11-18 Thread Deri
On Friday, 18 November 2022 00:30:28 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Deri, > > At 2022-11-17T21:29:43+, Deri wrote: > > Hi Branden, > > > > In papersize.tmac I see this in a comment:- > > > > groff -Tps -dpaper=a4l -P-pa4 -P-l -ms foo.ms > foo.ps > > > > So concept of reversing width

Re: gropdf landscape orientation support (was: [groff] 04/40: [gropdf]: Provide more info in diagnostic message.)

2022-11-18 Thread Blake McBride
IMO, having multiple ways of specifying landscape is a bad idea and is bound to lead to never-ending confusion. Blake On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 9:48 AM Deri wrote: > On Friday, 18 November 2022 00:30:28 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Hi Deri, > > > > At 2022-11-17T21:29:43+, Deri wrote:

Re: Why isn't the device resolution exposed to the formatter?

2022-11-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2022-11-18T13:29:47+1100, John Gardner wrote: > > an *embolus* in my brain > > $ echo "embolus" >> ~/Words-that-Branden-taught-me.txt > $ cat $_ > inimical, inimicable: harmful; hostile [...] In the spirit of full disclosure, I don't think the latter form is a standard English word. I don't r

Re: [groff] 04/40: [gropdf]: Provide more info in diagnostic message.

2022-11-18 Thread Deri
On Friday, 18 November 2022 01:31:22 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Deri, > > At 2022-11-17T01:22:48+, Deri wrote: > > On Wednesday, 16 November 2022 22:57:45 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > > I therefore propose something like: > > > > > > gropdf: warning: cannot embed font for 'TR':

gropdf paper format diagnostic message and rev{i, er}sion plans (was: gropdf landscape orientation support)

2022-11-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Deri, I'm about to spend a good deal of my weekend out of pocket, so I might not be able to follow up on the landscape/rotation discussion right away. But I did want to go ahead and run something by you that we agree on in principle. At 2022-11-18T15:46:24+, Deri wrote: > Invalid paper si

Re: Why isn't the device resolution exposed to the formatter?

2022-11-18 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Fri, Nov 18, 2022, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > groff's purpose is to aid the transmission of written language, and > we ill serve its legacy when we distract ourselves with how best to > polish marble statues of the Unix operating system and its progenitors. I concur completely. It's why I de

Re: gropdf paper format diagnostic message and rev{i, er}sion plans (was: gropdf landscape orientation support)

2022-11-18 Thread Deri
On Friday, 18 November 2022 17:29:46 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Deri, > > I'm about to spend a good deal of my weekend out of pocket, so I might > not be able to follow up on the landscape/rotation discussion right > away. But I did want to go ahead and run something by you that we agree

Re: [groff] 04/40: [gropdf]: Provide more info in diagnostic message.

2022-11-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Deri, My departure's an hour later than I thought so I have a few more minutes, and a good thing since apparently we had yet another misunderstanding. At 2022-11-18T17:16:44+, Deri wrote: > > If we're going to treat the "download" file as an input file (which > > is a reasonable enough cla

Re: Macro to add sheetmusic either inline or as a figure with lilypond

2022-11-18 Thread Thomas Dupond
hbezemer--- via wrote: > Dear all, > > I've created a macroset (see below) which enables me to use lilypond source > files and build > pdf images from them. > When using '.LILY ' lilypond gets called and builds a > pdf. Thank you for this! If you're okay with it, I'll add it to the groff exam

Re: Macro to add sheetmusic either inline or as a figure with lilypond

2022-11-18 Thread hbezemer--- via
That's okay. I allready placed it in: https://github.com/Allfifthstuning/awesome-groff-user-macrosets Regards, Hans Thomas Dupond wrote: > hbezemer--- via wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > I've created a macroset (see below) which enables me to use lilypond source > > files and build > > pdf i