Hi Branden,
Indeed I found what I needed in the separate ms manual, not in groff_ms.
Do you deem it a worthwhile effort to compile something like a feature
index or feature table for all groff macro packages? I think I've seen
something to this effect before but do not remember how exhaustive
Hi Oliver,
At 2024-11-08T16:41:18+0100, Oliver Corff via GNU roff typesetting system
discussion wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I was in search of the macros for writing indented and bulleted lists.
> While groff_mm contains the macro BL which is explained as "Begin
> bulleted list" and groff_me has "(l
Hi,
in my humble opinion, a solution to your problem (if I understood it
correctly) already exists. Perhaps a good starting point for writing
useful macros which output the desired text according to language is the
macro repository of groff.
Check, e.g. the macro files trans.tmac, de.tmac, sv.tm
Hi Dave,
thank you very much for pointing out the usefulness of units!
Adding the "u" did the trick.
The simple macro
.de hline
\l'\n[LL]u'
..
.hline
now does the trick, the line length is exactly the same es the text line
length, no problems with truncated divisions anymore.
Best,
Oliver.
On Fri, Nov 8, 2024 at 10:20 AM Oliver Corff wrote:
> \n[LL] produces 468000.
Yes. It's not intuitive that registers defined using any other units
are stored in basic units, and that groff must be explicitly told this
whenever such values are referenced.
$ cat testfile
.nr a 4i
.tm \n[a]
$ grof
Hi Branden,
for table environments, that works, thank you!
Again the problem of search terms... OF COURSE line length -> LL is what
I searched for, alas! I thought in terms of TeX terminology: \textwidth
which would lead nowhere.
\n[LL] produces 468000. I tried \l'\n[LL]/1' but get an "erro
Dear All,
I was in search of the macros for writing indented and bulleted lists.
While groff_mm contains the macro BL which is explained as "Begin
bulleted list" and groff_me has "(l begin list" and ")l end list", I was
a bit baffled how groff_ms successfully hides its list feature from the
user:
Hey Adam and onf,
Thanks for the suggestion about po4a, it is good to know such thing
exists. But I didn't find any examples about it and I was not in the
mood to understand it, so I tried to be creative!
I kludged together the switch case example from groff documentation
[1] and now I have this
Dear All,
if I want to draw a line spanning my whole text block using \l'nn', I
usually do it the quick and dirty way and use a number which produces a
visual fit, e.g. for an A4 page with default margin settings in ms I say
\l'46' (which is visibly a tiny bit too short but ok for my current
purp
Hi Oliver,
At 2024-11-08T16:26:28+0100, Oliver Corff wrote:
> if I want to draw a line spanning my whole text block using \l'nn', I
> usually do it the quick and dirty way and use a number which produces
> a visual fit, e.g. for an A4 page with default margin settings in ms I
> say \l'46' (which i
At 2024-11-08T17:20:05+0100, Oliver Corff wrote:
> Again the problem of search terms... OF COURSE line length -> LL is
> what I searched for, alas! I thought in terms of TeX terminology:
> \textwidth which would lead nowhere.
It's not exactly wonderful that the most likely mnemonic for the `\w`
es
Bento Borges Schirmer writes:
> I want to translate my CV to english. [...] Do you know any design
> pattern, macro set or preprocessor that could handle this task in a
> manageable way?
po4a (https://po4a.org/, packaged in most distributions already) is one
approach to this -- you write the doc
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