At 2024-06-11T19:58:51-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> > I'd structure what you have like this:
> >
> > .nf
> > .EX
> > ...
> > .EE
> > .fi
>
> .EX/.EE is too dumb for this. Anything between .EE and .fi will get
> filled, which is almost certainly contrary to the purpose of .nf/.fi.
You're right
Hi Branden,
thank you very much for this effort. One question: the appearance of
your reconstruction is slightly different from the original. Your lines
contain approx. 10% more characters, in result a 10-line paragraph in
the original text is about 9 lines long in the reconstruction. May I
assum
If we're gonna get precise, is the Bell Labs logo still accessable?
Be nice to include that.
On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 05:02:22PM +0200, Oliver Corff via wrote:
> Hi Branden,
>
> thank you very much for this effort. One question: the appearance of
> your reconstruction is slightly different from t
Hi Oliver & Larry,
At 2024-06-12T17:02:22+0200, Oliver Corff via wrote:
> thank you very much for this effort.
My pleasure--if I can call it a pleasure to discover defects in groff's
mm package scrambling out like roaches when the light's turned on. :-O
> One question: the appearance of
> your
Hi Branden,
On 12/06/2024 18:22, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Hi Oliver & Larry,
At 2024-06-12T17:02:22+0200, Oliver Corff via wrote:
thank you very much for this effort.
My pleasure--if I can call it a pleasure to discover defects in groff's
mm package scrambling out like roaches when the ligh
Hi Oliver,
At 2024-06-12T22:12:34+0200, Oliver Corff via wrote:
> Absolutely reasonable.
[...]
> Do you know whether your scan is scaled 1:1? In this case only, direct
> measures could be taken from the image, assuming that the paper size
> is letter.
I attached the scan I used to my earlier emai
Anton Shepelev wrote to G. Branden Robinson:
> > Check your environment for variables named "GROFF_SGR"
> > (a Debianism) and "GROFF_NO_SGR". Unset them both and
> > try "groff -man -Tutf8" again.
>
> `export | grep -i sgr' finds nothing, unfortunately.
> Where else can I look for the reason of -
Hello, all
What is the covenstional way of documenting a set of C
functions with -man? Have you any recommendations or
examples about typesetting function declaraions, their
return types and aruguments in a classic man-page? The .SY
macro does not seem to work well for C, because its function
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