[Groff] tbl: Standard column width?

2006-03-10 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hello, I would like to know, if there is a standard column width, when I use the .TS macro? The problem is, that the result of the following code is wrapped text in the second column (independent from MANWIDTH), even if I use expand: .TS expand allbox; ll. T{ "0x1000" T} T{ Disable AGP 4

Re: [Groff] tbl: Standard column width?

2006-03-13 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 13.03.2006, 07:48 +0100 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: > > I would like to know, if there is a standard column width, when I use > > the .TS macro? > > Yes. If there are N columns, and a text block spans C columns, the > default width of this text block is > > \n[.l]*C/(N+1) > > I've

Re: [Groff] Projects using DocBook source for man pages

2007-01-04 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Donnerstag, den 04.01.2007, 17:58 +0900 schrieb Michael(tm) Smith: > Related to some current discussions on the list, I wanted to > mention a few projects I'm aware of that have authored their > man-page documentation in DocBook and used the DocBook Project > XSLT stylesheets to generate man-pag

[Groff] Preferred preprocessor syntax?

2007-11-23 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hello, Can you guys point me to a statement (or simply give it), which is the preferred preprocessor syntax for groff? Is it .\" or '\" Unfortunately groff_man(7) tells about the first and the related info page talks about the latter. Is there some preferred form? Regards, Daniel

[Groff] RfH: numeric expression expected (got `n')

2008-02-23 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hello, I have a problem with man-pages written by the PSI3 projects. Man throws a warning about a macro the manpage authors wrote. However I don't know GROFF well enough to track the issue down. All I can say is, that the warning is thrown for lines with the .pN macro, which is defined earlier. Y

Re: [Groff] RfH: numeric expression expected (got `n')

2008-02-23 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Samstag, den 23.02.2008, 20:39 -0700 schrieb Clarke Echols: > I looked at the macro definition, and everything in it seems to > be related to testing and defining strings. Thus I see no reason > why the formatter would complain. Obviously there must be something > in the file being processed t

Re: [Groff] RfH: numeric expression expected (got `n')

2008-02-25 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Sonntag, den 24.02.2008, 10:54 +0100 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: > > I have a problem with man-pages written by the PSI3 projects. Man > > throws a warning about a macro the manpage authors wrote. > > > > However I don't know GROFF well enough to track the issue down. All > > I can say is, that th

Re: [Groff] \(aq not working in OpenSolaris environment

2009-02-11 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Mittwoch, den 11.02.2009, 08:20 +0100 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: > > I'm testing some groff source with non-GNU troff in an OpenSolaris/ > > SunOS 5.11 environment and noticed a problem. I'm using \(aq in the > > source to represent straight apostrophes, but when I view the TTY > > output, no apost