Re: the Courier font family and nroff history

2024-03-22 Thread Dan Plassche
modern graphical consoles like wscons on NetBSD that display overstrikes correclty. Best, Dan -- Dan Plassche

Re: [Groff] "Bib" preprocessor?

2016-07-27 Thread Dan Plassche
number 28. MirBSD has an html version of the doc at https://www.mirbsd.org/htman/i386/manUSD/28.bib.htm. I tried and liked bib, but found it was easier in my case to manually format references. I used Chicago style exclusively abd just setup a sed script to handle first references, while le

Re: [Groff] OT: Fork of the Heirloom Documentation Tools for fixing bugs

2014-08-25 Thread Dan Plassche
proves useful with historical documents like old man pages. Thanks, Dan Plassche On Aug 19, 2014 5:29 PM, "Carsten Kunze" wrote: > Hello, > > Since I know this list has some members who also use the Heirloom > Documentation Tools ... > > There are some bugs in this t

Viewing C/A/T Troff Output (Re: groff man(7) `B` macro behavior with `\c`, and input traps)

2022-06-18 Thread Dan Plassche
version from 1987 on Nextstep/Openstep if you already run either of those in emulation. The open source psroff from Chris Lewis is another option, but takes a lot more work to compile. Best, Dan Plassche -- Dan Plassche

Re: Underlining

2023-01-30 Thread Dan Plassche
Copying the list as I replied to Branden only by accident a few minutes ago. This should be the latest version of Werner's underlining macro: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2010-08/msg00017.html IIRC it still has problems when output goes across multiple lines (becomes continuous under

Underlining

2023-02-01 Thread Dan Plassche
> IIRC it still has problems when output goes across multiple lines > (becomes continuous underline including margin and spacing from > second line going forward) and with underlining punctuation after the > argument (workarounds force an extra space). I can confirm tomorrow. The underlining fro

Re: [TUHS] v6 Unix Documents

2024-10-19 Thread Dan Plassche
On Fri, 18 Oct 2024, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I do observe that this web page credits the publisher of the document as > "Western Digital Corporation". Shouldn't that be "Western Electric > Company"? Yeah, Western Electric is the issuer on the licenses and printed documentation packs for

Re: [TUHS] v6 Unix Documents

2024-10-20 Thread Dan Plassche
Hey Branden, On Fri, 18 Oct 2024, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I do observe that this web page credits the publisher of the document as > "Western Digital Corporation". Shouldn't that be "Western Electric > Company"? Yeah, Western Electric issued licenses and official printed documentation ext

Re: [TUHS] v6 Unix Documents

2024-10-20 Thread Dan Plassche
Hey Branden, Apologies for the duplicate message. My last mail did not reach TUHS with the proper sender address. On Fri, 18 Oct 2024, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I do observe that this web page credits the publisher of the document as > "Western Digital Corporation". Shouldn't that be "Wes

Typesetter C Compiler and Troff (Re: [TUHS] Re: v6 Unix Documents)

2024-10-20 Thread Dan Plassche
On Sun, 20 Oct 2024, Jonathan Gray wrote: > I've seen references to > "Documents for Use with the Phototypesetter (Version 7)" > which was likely distributed with the licensed phototypesetter tape in 1977. > > What may have been the manual distributed with that tape is also close to v7. > > ht

Re: [TUHS] v6 Unix Documents

2024-10-20 Thread Dan Plassche
Hey Branden, Apologies for the duplicate message. I had a mailer issue this evening where the message did not reach TUHS. On Fri, 18 Oct 2024, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I do observe that this web page credits the publisher of the document as > "Western Digital Corporation". Shouldn't that

v6 Unix Documents

2024-10-17 Thread Dan Plassche
es of the internal memoranda from Ossanna that served as the NROFF User's Manual since v3, the TROFF User's Manual after v5, and TROFF Made Trivial starting around v4. Based on the manpage histories, the documentation was revised for v4, 5, and 6. Best, Dan Plassche

Re: [TUHS] Typesetter C Compiler and Troff (Re: Re: v6 Unix Documents)

2024-11-30 Thread Dan Plassche
> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 22:47:43 > From: Jonathan Gray > > > I adapted Tim Newsham's v6 install scripts for PWB if you'd > like to run it on simh. > > https://github.com/jonathangray/pwb/ Thanks, very helpful and worked well. Since I was able to follow the setup script and rebuild the c v