[Groff] Adding printer's marks to documents

2008-12-30 Thread Chris Schaller
Hi, Trying to add printer's marks to my roff documents. I stumbled across groff's graphics commands, but all of them start from current location and I did not find a command to move the current location to an arbitrary position. Is there any way to add those marks to a groff source or do I have t

Re: [Groff] Adding printer's marks to documents

2008-12-30 Thread Chris Schaller
Ted, On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Ted Harding wrote: >> Is there any way to add those marks to a groff source or do I have to >> add postscript code via \X'ps: '? > > If you're referring to "cut-marks" or "crop-marks", the following is > an example of what I have used. That's exactly what I

Re: [Groff] inability to process german umlauts

2009-04-08 Thread Chris Schaller
Jan, encountered this one, too. What's your fileencoding in vim (:set fileencoding?). You might want to try to set it either to utf-8 or latin-1. Latter worked for me despite having encoding set to utf-8. So you are experiencing a vim configuration issue here... See also :h encoding and :h fileen

Re: [Groff] inability to process german umlauts

2009-04-10 Thread Chris Schaller
Nope. Is this considered a bug? It's just about proper vim settings. - Chris On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:25 AM, walter harms wrote: > > > Chris Schaller schrieb: >> Jan, >> >> encountered this one, too. What's your fileencoding in vim (:set >> fileencodin

[Groff] Macro for German DIN letters

2010-09-12 Thread Chris Schaller
Hi, Finally I recalled that I wanted to send my own macro set for writing letters, (hopefully) conforming to German DIN norm. They are far from perfect, but they do work for me. The macros put addresses, date, subject, etc. to the places they belong to and produce folding marks for German DIN en

[Groff] Using groff & tbl for creating a CV

2011-08-09 Thread Chris Schaller
Did anyone of you roffers ever try to create a CV with groff and tbl? I started using tbl for that purpose, but I miserably failed with the output. Example: """ .TS tab(|); lll. Since 05/2006|My Company in Downtown _ |This is the role I occupied |T{ .IP - Working on this .IP - Working on that .I

Re: [Groff] Using groff & tbl for creating a CV

2011-08-10 Thread Chris Schaller
Gosh, you are right! I usually try to avoid custom macros and reuse existing stuff. But with your version the text looks cleaner (no column separators or T{ and T}). Am I right that I can also create line breaks for the Date macro by temporarily changing the line length? So that in this example