Re: "transparent" output and throughput, demystified

2024-09-04 Thread Deri
On Sunday, 1 September 2024 06:09:17 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Deri, > > At 2024-08-31T17:07:28+0100, Deri wrote: > > On Saturday, 31 August 2024 00:07:57 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote: > [fixing two of my own typos and one wordo in the following] > > > > It would be cleaner and simpler

Re: "transparent" output and throughput, demystified

2024-09-04 Thread Dave Kemper
On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 11:04 AM Deri wrote: > The example using \ > [u012F] is superior (in my opinion) because it is using a single glyph the > font designer intended for that character rather than combining two glyphs > that don't marry up too well. I agree with this opinion. > If you know of

Re: groff Digest, Vol 239, Issue 2

2024-09-04 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> Unfortunately pic chops broken lines into separate segments, > so it can't directly fill general polygons. But then again, the nice thing about pic doing this is that its dashed lines always begin and end with a stroked segment. Many programs don't get this right. And the nice thing about usi

drawing requests following the line

2024-09-04 Thread Philippe PITTOLI via
Hello, I've a question regarding drawing requests. I would like for example to underline or highlight some text even when it is spanning over multiple lines (or pages). Thus, I suppose the best way would be to perform a drawing request that somewhat "follows the line". As far as I understand, s

Re: "transparent" output and throughput, demystified

2024-09-04 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[fair warning: _gigantic_ message, 5.7k words] Hi Deri & Dave, I'll quote Dave first since his message was brief and permits me to make a concession early. At 2024-09-04T15:05:38-0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 11:04 AM Deri > wrote: > > The example using \[u012F] is superior

.CW usage by a new user

2024-09-04 Thread Jordán
Greetings and good afternoon, I am using the MS macro in groff and with the .CW I saw that I could not add a phrase with quotes, well I could write .CW “test” but I can't do something like: .CW “”test“” what should I do so that the quotes can be seen with .CW? Thank you very much for reading. --