Re: [Groff] Introduction

On Tuesday 18 Oct 2005 12:44, D. E. Evans wrote: > > >We had a discussion on this list a few months ago, that if anyone had > > done a WYSIWYG front-end for groff years ago, it would be more viable for > > the masses. Sigh. > > > Like all UNIX tools, the specialized ones are the most viable.

Re: [Groff] Introduction

On Thursday 20 Oct 2005 19:46, Larry Kollar wrote: > Is anyone collecting the "reasons for using groff" that have been > going by in this thread? Such a collection would be a fine beginning > to an advocacy/"Why Use groff" chapter in UTP (or a standalone web > page). I'd be particularly interested

Re: [Groff] Introduction

On Monday 24 Oct 2005 21:40, you wrote: > Deri, > > Are the barcodes generated by troff? (A special font?) > > Or are they images that are generated, and then something like .PSPIC > glues them into the documents? I generate the bar code directly, using interleaved 2of5. (GPLed font here:-

Re: [Groff] PS printing - was Re: `Idot' vs. `Idotaccent'

On Friday 10 Mar 2006 14:28, Michail Vidiassov wrote: > Dear All, > > let us run some survey. > Please, tell us, how do you use groff PS output. > Do you know how other people use it? > Is it really in use? > Do you use fonts supplied with groff or install your own font files? > > Werner is now des

[Groff] Using Printer "Jogging" with groff

Hello, I have been trying to get printer "jogging" to work from within groff. The print bureau have told me I just need to insert this code on the page which I need "jogged":- %%BeginFeature: *Jog << /Jog 3 >> setpagedevice %%EndFeature so I set up two macros:- .de Jogger3 ps:

Re: [Groff] doclifter on groffer.man

On Monday 01 January 2007 19:52, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Here is a slightly expanded version of a diagram I posted back towards > the beginning of the discussion: > [...] > > The box in the middle is intended to indicate the use of DocBook as a > common interchange format. I may have, on occasion

[bug #64576] [pdf.tmac] pdf*href option handling insufficiently flexible

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #64576 (project groff): Just completed a fix to allow any input to be used as a valid *roff identifier. This allows all UTF-8 to be used as well. So both "Known Issues" in my NewGropdf document are now ticked off. :-)

Re: [Groff] gropdf ellipsis (u+2026) breaks with several fonts

On Wed 11 Mar 2015 09:36:15 Ellam ByDefault wrote: > I'm writing a document parser which outputs to groff to be processed with > gropdf. > When the parse document contains unicode ellipsis (u+2026), it goes fine > with few groff fonts, namely Times, Helvetica, Courier. > But with Palatino and the r

Re: [Groff] Problem with tables changing setting.

On Mon 20 Apr 2015 22:31:03 Radek wrote: > Hi Ralph, > > Relevant part of Makefile is > > PREPROC = -pt > %.pdf: %.tr > groff -U $(PREPROC) -Tpdf -m spdf $< >$@ > > So the command is: groff -U -pt -Tpdf -mspdf table.tr >table.pdf The code snippet you provided does not seem to require the ms

Re: [Groff] Business Graphics

On Sat 23 May 2015 10:53:49 Clarke Echols wrote: > Sounds interesting. Will there be an ability to fill the pie-chart > segments with color so the PostScript output from groff can be converted > to .jpg files for inclusion in HTML web pages? > > That would be useful. > > Clarke Yes, it works wi

Re: [Groff] Business Graphics

On Sun 24 May 2015 12:53:07 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Deri, > > > Its purpose is to provide inline "business type" graphs for groff. I > > know we have grap which seems to be aimed at the more mathematical end > > of graphs, I'm aiming for the sort of graphs which a typical office > > spreadsheet

Re: [Groff] can't translate character code 229 to special character `oa' in transparent throughput

On Wed 10 Jun 2015 16:19:24 mikkel meinike wrote: > I just compiled groff from source and I used pdfmom in a way I have done > many times before but this time there was a strange problem that I have not > tried before. The error massages was printed into the document. > > This command is causing t

Re: [Groff] can't translate character code 229 to special character `oa' in transparent throughput

On Wed 10 Jun 2015 17:51:23 mikkel meinike wrote: > Deri you talk about an error in the source code of pdfmom? > > Anyway I made this work. I found and old document almost simular that did > not make that mistake. Than I copy/pasted and edite the contet of the old > doc to look like the new doc an

Re: [Groff] How remove title?

On Fri 12 Jun 2015 23:23:14 Peng Yu wrote: > Hi, I use the following command to generate a pdf file from a manpage. > But the pdf file has title "Untitled". I want to unset it via groff. > But I don't see an option to set title to be null. Would you please > let me know how to unset the title with

Re: [Groff] How remove title?

On Sat 13 Jun 2015 15:20:24 Peng Yu wrote: > > Do these actually check the manpages on my system? I guess it does > > not. I want to convert manpages on my system. > > Maybe you can make a corresponding version that works locally? Well, that is in fact what happens, on my system it is local. The

Re: [Groff] How remove title?

On Tue 16 Jun 2015 11:49:23 Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > Anyway i finally have to say that it is a pity that, instead of > (making the engine as such multi-pass and) instrumenting the > macros for different output formats that need meta-information, > and extending the macros sets to include more meta

Re: [Groff] How remove title?

On Tue 16 Jun 2015 11:47:27 Peng Yu wrote: > I am on Mac. I have installed groff using homebrew. > > $ ls -lgo $(type -P groff) > lrwxr-xr-x 1 32 Jun 16 11:08 /usr/local/bin/groff -> > ../Cellar/groff/1.22.3/bin/groff > > Now, I see the following error. What do they mean and how to fix them? > Th

Re: [Groff] How remove title?

On Tue 16 Jun 2015 15:15:27 Peng Yu wrote: > Yes. It can generate the pdf. But the title is "LS("1")". How to > remove the title? It may be that if the title is removed some pdf viewers may show the title as "Untitled". All the viewers I have tried use the filename if a specific title is not giv

Re: [Groff] Mission statement PDF

On Wed 08 Jul 2015 17:56:10 Peter Schaffter wrote: > I've fixed the offending line in the Mission Statement pdf and > tested it with a batch of viewers. Seems to be working fine. > Uploaded the .pdf to the groff webpage. How fixed? A) Editing line identified by Tadziu by hand, or B) Regenerating

Re: [Groff] Mission statement PDF

On Thu 09 Jul 2015 07:04:53 Doug McIlroy wrote: > Peter wrote: > I've fixed the offending line in the Mission Statement pdf > > Out of curiosity, what was the offense? Did some groff construct > lead to it? > > Doug Tadziu said:- > The first element of the Widths array on line 315 of the PDF is

Re: [Groff] Tbl - repeating column titles

On Thu 24 Sep 2015 18:47:19 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > It may pre-date your time on this list, but some of us here re-entered > the book as troff source from the scan after I got Tim O'Reilly's > permission. http://home.windstream.net/kollar/utp/ > > Cheers, Ralph. You can retrieve the pdf with "cl

Re: [Groff] Groff command-line argument strangeness

On Mon 26 Oct 2015 05:31:28 Keith Marshall wrote: > > However, when I do this, groff gives the following warnings: > > > > > > Unknown option: I > > Unknown option: r > > Unknown option: c > > > > > > > > Have I done something wrong, and if so, what? > > Reproduced here ... looks like another bu

Re: [Groff] Using Make with pdfmom

gt; there. Is this the only way I can do this, or am I missing some option I > could use instead? In the current git log you should see:- == commit 0fd1ab8c1c07c7c9bfadd30042a617e7f855d13e Author: Deri James Date:

Re: [Groff] Times-Roman v. Nimbus Roman No9 L Regular.

On Tue 03 May 2016 10:53:45 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Werner, > > > > Should I be telling groff that I want to use those Nimbus fonts so > > > it uses their metrics rather than the "almost identical" Times' > > > ones? > > > > If you use the gropdf output device, try groff's `-P -y -P U' option

Re: [Groff] .if !dTS - GNU extension?

On Sun 01 May 2016 17:39:59 James K. Lowden wrote: > As far as I can tell, you're defining "best" in terms of the goal of > delivering a base OS without a troff dependency for manual display. I > really don't understand why you consider that desirable. I would like > to see groff used more, not l

Re: [Groff] Times-Roman v. Nimbus Roman No9 L Regular.

On Thu 05 May 2016 15:13:34 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Deri, > > > One way to add the URW fonts post groff install is to run the > > BuildFoundries program after you have cd'd into the devpdf font > > directory. Within this directory you should find a file called > > "Foundry". Make sure line 68 i

Re: [Groff] pdfmom question

On Tue 01 Nov 2016 15:56:49 Peter Schaffter wrote: > This is a question for Deri James. > > Is there some reason why, in pdfmom, the system() call to groff at > line 125 does not include '$preconv' in the first pass? > > I've been working on flexible vert

Re: [Groff] Colors with gropdf

On Fri 25 Nov 2016 16:47:26 Robert Marks wrote: > I have recently had to embed a PDF image in a groff document and so have > been using > groff -Tpdf > to do so. > But I find that my \m[red] etc color commands are not recognised (and there > are error messages.. > Some work on Google led me to the

Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages

On Thu 27 Apr 2017 20:12:09 Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Does that still apply to > > view-source:http://man.openbsd.org/ksh compared with a PDF version:- http://chuzzlewit.co.uk/WebManPDF.pl/man:/1/ksh

Re: [Groff] Nesting font macros in man pages

On Thu 27 Apr 2017 23:48:29 Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > Terrible, see the spacing errors surrounding the command list > before the "Substitution" heading! Not your fault of course, but > gr... > > --steffen Well, turns out it WAS my fault! Bug in gropdf, will commit after more testing. Thanks

Re: [Groff] Problems with arcs and angles

On Tue 09 May 2017 13:55:38 John Gardner wrote: > Looks like there's a mistake in groff_out(5). It describes its arc-drawing > command as: > > *Draw arc from current position to (h1, v1)+(h2, v2) with center at (h1, > > > v1);* > > However, gropdf.pl tells a different story. To quote line #2791:

Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files

On Sun 23 Jul 2017 10:16:39 Dale Snell wrote: > Hi Erich, > > I suspect that the typeface you're using simply doesn't have the > "char-with-breve" and "char-with-macron" characters. That > happened to me a while back. I needed vowels with macrons to > print out some Romaji (romanized Japanese) w

Re: [Groff] Elegant -ms and -mpdfmark documents

On Tue 05 Sep 2017 23:49:26 Kristaps Dzonsons wrote: > For example, the colouring of links You could insert these lines at the top of the .ms file:- \# These lines set link text and border colours to rgb 0.0 0.3 0.9 .ds PDFHREF.COLOUR 0.0 0.3 0.9 .defcolor pdf:href.colour rgb \*[PDFHREF.COLOUR] .

Re: [Groff] parallel text processing ; vertical and horizontal mode

On Thu 07 Sep 2017 18:07:27 Peter Schaffter wrote: > You'll notice that the top of the pdf file has a > line of text spit out by grep(1) that obviously shouldn't be there. > I guess I've never had to deal with diacritics in titles, because > I've never seen this before and the line only appears whe

Re: [Groff] pdfmom grep (was parallel text processing)

On Sat 09 Sep 2017 09:51:27 Peter Schaffter wrote: > On Sat, Sep 09, 2017, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > > > > > > > The grep in pdfmom is returning a binary file hit when it encounters > > > the diacritic in > > > > > > .ds pdf:look(pdf:bm1) L'étranger > > > > > > > > What does lo

Re: [Groff] devpdf U-fonts and Russian

On Fri 06 Oct 2017 10:57:43 Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > Well, I get *different* errors, that at first sight appear > somewhat bizarre but don't give the impression of something > critical > > bash$ groff -Kutf8 -pet -Tpdf RuTest.rof >RuTest.pdf > RuTest.rof: Too many glyphs used in font '39' >

Re: [Groff] devpdf U-fonts and Russian

On Fri 06 Oct 2017 13:43:13 Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > In Postscript you can use the same font with multiple different > encodings; I assume something similar is also possible in PDF. > The way this is done is by making a copy of the font dictionary, > keeping all entries except Encoding, which is re

Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro

On Sun 08 Oct 2017 20:26:02 Keith Marshall wrote: > You may recall that I did begin to explore possibilities, at the time, > but then life ... explicitly a protracted visit to Australia and New > Zealand, followed by too many other priorities on return ... got in the > way. I've now found a bit

Re: [groff] Something broke embedded fonts in gropdf output (but not grops)

On Thu 15 Feb 2018 17:06:40 Jim Avera wrote: > Hello, > > Something changed between Ubuntu 16.04 and 17.10 which makes > locally-installed fonts not render correctly in PDFs generated with > groff -Tpdf. However groff -Tps produces correctly-rendering > postscript (files in devps/ and devpdf/

Re: [groff] Release Candidate 1.22.3.rc1

On Fri 16 Feb 2018 11:42:13 Peter Schaffter wrote: > After the list discussion back in the fall about slides and > gpresent, Deri tinkered with gropdf and I with om.tmac to implement > slides with mom/gropdf. I think the mom side of things is done, but > I'm holding off releasing the new version u

Re: [groff] [bernhard.fiss...@mail.de: mom: PDF Author, pdfmom: needs C locale?]

On Thu 08 Mar 2018 17:06:12 Peter Schaffter wrote: > This seems to be an "on again, off again" bug. We discussed adding > LC_ALL=C to the command string in pdfmom, but I see it's not there. > Deri--any objections to adding it? The alternative is to pass the > -a flag to the various greps, but Ste

Re: [groff] [bernhard.fiss...@mail.de: mom: PDF Author, pdfmom: needs C locale?]

On Fri 09 Mar 2018 16:09:35 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > That seems unlikely. grep thinks files are binary if they contain ASCII > NUL, or have a byte sequence that's invalid for the locale, and it only > emits that `Binary file ... matches' if such a line matches the regexp. > > Does your grep behave

Re: [groff] pdfmom: needs C locale?

On Sat 10 Mar 2018 12:29:54 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > I don't know how all those other commands did. :-) > What's the output of > > dpkg-query -W grep > grep --version > od -tx1z <<<$'x\xa0\xa0y' > LC_ALL=en_GB.utf8 grep z <<<$'x\xa0\xa0y' > LC_ALL=en_GB.utf8 grep z <<<$'x\xa0\x

[groff] Creating a pdf slideshow

ned out all the wrinkles. Cheers Deri .pl 9c .nr PO 1c .nr LL 14c .nr LT 14c .nr HM 1c .nr FM .5c .RP no .P1 .nr bm 0 1 .nop \!x X papersize=16c,9c .ds PDFHREF.COLOUR 0.0 0.3 0.9 .defcolor pdf:href.colour rgb \\*[PDFHREF.COLOUR] .ds PDFHREF.TEXT.COLOUR pdf:href.colour .OH "'\m[grey]Slid

Re: [groff] Creating a pdf slideshow

On Wed 14 Mar 2018 15:37:00 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > When viewing with mupdf(1) on this 1920×1080, `f' for full-screen, then > `H' to fit its height to the screen gives a slight non-paper edge at > both sides. `W' to fit width instead gets rid of them, losing a bit top > and bottom I presume, but w

Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse

On Mon 02 Apr 2018 14:30:51 Doug McIlroy wrote: > > > Would it hence be sensible to change PDFPIC to fit the description > > Yes. This is clearly a bug, even if it's been around for years. > > Doug 100% agreement this should be fixed, although compatibility with previous version will be broke

Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?

On Mon 02 Apr 2018 12:14:03 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Good afternoon Bernhard, > > > > So pdfpic is an extension of pspic. By that you can now even replace > > > all PSPIC by PDFPIC, nothing gets lost by that. > > > > I read this as suggesting that results with -Tps and -Tpdf should be > > equivale

Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?

On Tue 10 Apr 2018 19:26:57 Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > I don't have a specific name suggestion, and I'm aware that > > this is a bikeshed, but can I suggest a more explicit variable > > name? Otherwise the next time some old behaviour needs to be > > switchably deprecated we're in for some confusi

Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?

On Sat 21 Apr 2018 08:16:36 Nate Bargmann wrote: > Note that I am only working with Groff's man macro package and do > understand that other macro packages may have greater demands on the > HTML generator. You might consider supporting mdoc macros. You may have seen:- http://chuzzlewit.co.uk/WebM

Re: [groff] hyphen, minus sign and hyphen-minus

On Fri 25 May 2018 16:59:50 Pali Rohár wrote: > Happens for: man -Tps and man -Tdvi > > And I think that the best readable output is by grodvi driver. So would > really like to have working copy+paste from the dvi output (converted to > PDF viewer). man -Tpdf will produce what you want. The '\-'

Re: [groff] hyphen, minus sign and hyphen-minus

On Sat 26 May 2018 11:50:31 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Deri, > > > man -Tpdf will produce what you want. The '\-' (minus) is used as the > > output glyph, but any copy/paste (or searching within document) will > > use '-' (hyphen). > > > > This is similar to the treatment of ligatures. If you loo

Re: [groff] hyphen, minus sign and hyphen-minus

On Sat 26 May 2018 13:16:42 Pali Rohár wrote: > And as I said "man -T dvi | dvipdfmx" > gives me better PDF output as man -Tpdf. So for reading I would really > prefer man -Tdvi Hi Pali, Have you tried passing -P-e on the command line when using -T pdf? One difference is that dvipdfmx always emb

Re: [groff] Macron characters in pdf files

On Mon 04 Jun 2018 23:21:15 Peter Schaffter wrote: > Greetings. > > I've verfied that the problem discussed in the following forwarded > email exists. -Tps has no trouble finding macron characters > composed in vim; -Tpdf does. Deri, I think this is your bailiwick. > > :) > Hi Peter, I'm hav

Re: [Groff] Paper Size with groff and evince on Ubuntu 7.10.

On Monday 21 April 2008 15:40:57 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi, > > I'm on Ubuntu 7.10 with > > groff 1.18.1.1-12 > evince2.20.1-0ubuntu1 > > I'm finding evince doesn't treat the PostScript from groff as being A4. > > $ cat /etc/papersize > a4 > $ date | groff -ma4 >date.ps

Re: [Groff] Groff Pic and colored objects!

On Friday 23 May 2008 19:23:12 pod wrote: > How can I define own colors? Hi Pod, Dean has illustrated the use of "shaded" in pic. You can get a list of predefined colour names by looking for the file "ps.tmac". You can also define your own colours (from 'info'):- ==

Re: [Groff] GSView question (groff-PostScript viewer)

On Monday 29 September 2008 20:23:02 Clarke Echols wrote: > I finally bit the bullet and got rid of my Windows 98 SE operating > system, replaced the drive with a RAID mirror pair of 500 Gbyte > drives, added 2 Gbytes of memory, and installed Ubuntu Linux. > > I feel like the outcast who came out o

Re: [Groff] How to draw a colorful circle/box with colorful text

On Friday 10 October 2008 13:43:26 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > how to draw a circle with red shade and red edge, while the text is > > green? > How about:- .PS r=1 circle rad r "\s-2A\s+2" shaded "red" outline "green" invisible .PE Cheers Deri

[Groff] Re: gropdf driver (was: pdfroff produces two copies)

On Tuesday 04 August 2009 19:58:04 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > [Deri, I hope it's OK with you that I cite from your private email to > me.] > Fine. > > Some weeks ago Deri James sent me a first implementation of a gropdf > driver; I've uploaded it temporarily to >

Re: [Groff] gropdf driver (was: pdfroff produces two copies)

On Wednesday 05 August 2009 11:30:50 joerg van den hoff wrote: > just a short feedback: > > 1.) > thanks! > > 2.) > in a first test with > > groff 1.19.3 > perl v5.8.8 > macosX > > this seems to work more or less correctly. > but with a small text sample the generated pdf was about a factor of > 10

Re: [Groff] gropdf driver (was: pdfroff produces two copies)

On Wednesday 05 August 2009 11:30:50 joerg van den hoff wrote: > Warning: An error occurred while reading an XREF table. > The file has been damaged. This may have been caused > by a problem while converting or transfering the file. > Ghostscript will attempt t

[Groff] PIC patch (was A little greeting card)

After having looked at Ted's greeting card example I realised that 'pic' outputs:- \X'ps: exec gsave currentpoint 2 copy translate %.4f rotate neg exch neg exch translate' to achieve the rotation and terminates it with:- \X'ps: exec grestore' I wanted the PDF driver (gropdf) I've been working

Re: [Groff] embedding pictures or images?

t, including > images. > > On the other hand, Deri James has written a PDF driver (gropdf) for > troff, so following his route you should be able to embed such images > into a PDF directly. However, I don't know whether his driver is > mature enough to support such images fo

Re: [Groff] Replacing groff with troff?

On Wednesday 02 June 2010 03:04:47 Larry Kollar wrote: > > It runs slowly > > And that statement pretty much casts everything else you say into > question. "Runs slowly" compared to what? I haven't found any general- > purpose formatter that even comes close to groff, speed-wise, and > don't

Re: [Groff] arrowup

On Friday 11 June 2010 13:34:36 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> So either something has changed the numerical encoding of \[ua] in > >> groff (but despite searching I have found no clue), or possibly the > >> input characters "\[ua]" were mis-interpreted as "\[uA]". Could > >> this have something to do

Re: [Groff] Odd adjusting behavior

On Saturday 03 July 2010 00:31:20 brian m. carlson wrote: > I'm working on autogenerating some troff input for a project of mine, > but I found some very odd behavior with the ad request. My testcase is > attached. If you run groff with -rTC=1, my name is properly centered > and in italics (as de

Re: [Groff] tbl and large font

On Tuesday 18 Jan 2011 17:51:22 walter harms wrote: > Hello List, > i have found an oddity with tbl and large fonts. > i got the request to make the fonts larger to inprove readability. > i added the \s16 and found that the width seems to scale but not > the hight of the table. Is this intended ? >

Re: [Groff] E/R-diagrams with pic

On Thursday 20 Jan 2011 23:25:32 Ralph Graulich wrote: > Hello troffers! > > Did someone try to layout E/R diagrams with pic? > Several years ago I built a very rudimentary toolchain, which read one or > more config files, took the table definitions from the database's data > dictionary, sends the

Re: [Groff] groff.texinfo - section 5.21 - sentence difficult to understand

On Saturday 22 Jan 2011 09:54:45 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >>"The optional second argument to de changes this to a macro to > >> > >> ‘.end’." > >> > >> For me this sentence is difficult to understand, although the > >> meaning is obvious. > > > > It was the same thing for me, I couldn

Re: [Groff] groff.texinfo - section 5.21 - sentence difficult to

On Saturday 22 Jan 2011 11:25:58 Ted Harding wrote: > On 22-Jan-11 11:03:47, Deri James wrote: > > On Saturday 22 Jan 2011 09:54:45 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> >> "The optional second argument to de changes this to a macro to > >> >> > >> &

Re: [Groff] URW fonts

On Friday 04 Feb 2011 08:34:57 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Folks, > > > while discussing integration of gropdf into groff with Deri, he told > me that gropdf essentially depends on downloadable PFA fonts to be > included in the created PDF files. This boils down to a dependency on > the URW fonts of

Re: [Groff] Initials: Help appreciated

On Wednesday 23 Feb 2011 18:35:41 Patrik Schindler wrote: > > Input: > > .dropcap Lorem darkblue 3 T 0 > ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut dapibus velit non > neque consectetur adipiscing. Sed accumsan, augue in eleifend > consequat, tellus > > Call: > groff -me -ma4 -mdropca

[Groff] Line Breaks

Apologies for asking a rather esoteric question! There are several troff commands which cause a line break, the most obvious being ".br". When a line break occurs 2 things may happen:- 1. The current line is flushed, and 2. Position is moved to start of new line I say "may" because if the cur

Re: [Groff] Line Breaks

On Sunday 06 Mar 2011 14:24:06 Deri James wrote: > Does my analysis make sense? Is it desirable to make \X et al "transparent" > so this effect won't happen. Will it break something else? Will I be able > to work out how to "fix" it? (That last one is sort o

Re: [Groff] gropdf finally added to groff

On Tuesday 26 Jul 2011 18:17:17 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Folks, > > > I've finally found some time to add Deri's gropdf output device to > groff, now in the CVS repository. Please test! There are still some > minor issues (mainly related to packaging), but besides that it seems > to work well. >

[Groff] gropdf and pdfroff

pdfroff is a very clever and useful utility in groff and I'd appreciate advice on how best to integrate it into gropdf. Currently gropdf includes its own pdfmark macros which are intended as a drop in replacement for pdfmark.tmac, in fact most of the macros are based on Keith Marshall's work. P

Re: [Groff] gropdf and pdfroff

On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 18:02:32 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Deri, > > > In a pdf every page is an object and the page order is given in an > > array called "kids" which is an attribute of the "pages" object. So to > > reorder the pages in a pdf is simply a case of reordering this array > > before

Re: [Groff] gropdf and pdfroff

On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 21:21:33 Peter Schaffter wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > Would it be better to leave the re-ordering to external utilities, e.g. > > the pdftk package > > > > http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ > > > > on the basis of do one sm

Re: [Groff] A trap with 'tbl'!

On Friday 29 Jul 2011 22:25:59 Ted Harding wrote: > Greetings All! > I'm writing to flag up a little trap that one might > fall into when using 'tbl'. > > Background: I'm setting up a table and I want each > row to have a row number to the left of the table. > > So I have defined a "left margin n

Re: devpdf compilation problems: GS Path (with GS 9.02 on Mac[Ports]), font/devpdf/Makefile.sub

On Wednesday 03 Aug 2011 11:18:09 Bernhard Fisseni wrote: > Good morning! > > I tried to compile CVS groff with devpdf and had the following problems; I > hope I haven't missed any important instructions. (I probably did.) > > - In fonts/devpdf/Makefile.sub, the files list is supposedly gathered

Re: [Groff] eqn: sqrt problems

On Friday 02 Sep 2011 12:22:46 Denis M. Wilson wrote: > Hello all, > > There have been various postings on this list about the wrong > positioning of the radical extender. I found that it depended on which > font family was being used. It turned out that some text faces have a > square root sign

Re: [Groff] eqn: sqrt problems

On Wednesday 07 Sep 2011 15:19:49 Denis M. Wilson wrote: > > Deri, > > Am I right in thinking your font U-TI is the URW Nimbus Roman No9 L > Regular Italic? If so then its sqrt matches that from the Symbol font > S (if also URW), so a redefinition of sqrt is not necessary. Denis, Yes, I was us

Re: [Groff] Right margin problems

On Wednesday 21 Dec 2011 21:44:48 Volker Wolfram wrote: > Hi all, > > my last posting was not full completed. > > Here is my Makefile: > > default: > groff -Tps -k -K utf8 -mm -m den 2.mm > test.ps > ghostview test.ps > print: > lpr -Prp test.ps > > > Adding .ad b won't work in my

Re: [Groff] holistic widow elimination

On Saturday 07 Jan 2012 22:59:46 Ted Harding wrote: > Just a few somewhat random thoughts. I've been through this > sort of thing too often for it to be easy or quick to summarise! I remember reading (on this list) a PHD thesis by Han The Thanh (of pdfTEX fame) on micro typography, although the o

Re: [Groff] Turn text upside down

On Wednesday 25 Jan 2012 20:52:56 Volker Wolfram wrote: > Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > Hi Volker, > > > > > how can I turn text upside down, will say: rotate by 180 degrees? > > > > Do you only need this for a particular output, e.g. Postscript? > > > > Cheers, Ralph. > > Hi all, > > yes, my out

Re: [Groff] URL hyperlinks in PDF from grops and ps2pdf?

On Tuesday 21 Feb 2012 07:21:15 Clarke Echols wrote: > I use groff to produce technical white papers. I run gv and > monitor a PostScript file so every time I update the file while > writing in vi (by pressing a function key that contains the groff > command as a vi macro). > > When I need to pri

Re: [Groff] does gropdf support Type 42 fonts

On Saturday 10 Mar 2012 14:05:22 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Deri, > > > according to the gropdf man page, Type 42 fonts are supported. > However, if I use one, I get the fatal message > > foo: Font file 'bar.t42' must be an Adobe type 1 font file > > > Werner Hi Werner, The man page is wr

Re: [Groff] gropdf issues

On Saturday 10 Mar 2012 13:42:53 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Deri, > > > gropdf uses the `*' character in the `download' file. This not > documented and I ask you to add it. > > Another question is how to easily update an installed `download' file > at all. For example, if I upgrade from ghostscri

Re: [Groff] editing chinese?

On Saturday 10 Mar 2012 14:36:37 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > groff's PDF output device > doesn't work; I suspect a bug (or it isn't implemented yet). This was due to the current gropdf not handling glyphs above 255. I now have a version which remaps glyphs to unused characters below 255, so your exam

Re: [Groff] editing chinese?

On Sunday 11 Mar 2012 15:02:55 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Deri, > > > ...so your example now works fine with -T pdf. The pdf produced is > > huge though, I really must make myself do the font subsetting code. > > Out of interest, does `ps2pdf huge.pdf new.pdf' result in a smaller file > with the

Re: [Groff] typesetting Czech with custom fonts

On Wednesday 28 Mar 2012 13:56:57 Petr Man wrote: > > Hello Keith, > thanks, that clears the errors for start. Yet I still end up with > missing čřž etc characters. > Petr Are you talking about missing from the bookmark ouitline panel or missing from the text of the document? Missing from outli

Re: [Groff] typesetting Czech with custom fonts

On Wednesday 28 Mar 2012 16:02:01 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > This is a (painful) limitation of Adobe's pdfmark specification: > > only a rather limited set of characters is permitted within the text > > which is specified to describe a bookmark. > > This is not correct, AFAIK. There are two encodi

Re: [Groff] [groff] table of contents and hyperlinks

On Friday 27 Apr 2012 06:19:25 bertrand wrote: > I am using groff 1.21, with the following commands: > groff -pt -m ms -m pdfmark -m spdf -Tps mydoc.ms > mydoc.ps > ps2pdf mydoc.ps If you are using a recent version (from CVS), and want to walk on the wild side! You could try using the native PDF

Re: [Groff] U+0027, U+002D, and U+0060 in code examples?

On Sunday 06 May 2012 12:01:02 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Ideally, there should be a proper ToUnicode cmap in the PDF so that > copy and paste gives good results. On the PostScript side, it should > be theoretically possible to use the `GlyphNames2Unicode' dictionary > (an undocumented Adobe Distille

Re: [Groff] make fails creating U-

On Saturday 26 May 2012 10:02:22 Denis M. Wilson wrote: > On Fri, 25 May 2012 23:41:32 -0400 > > Peter Schaffter wrote: > > Building groff from the latest sources, 'make' terminates with > > Error 2 after multiple warnings of the sort > > > > Warning: line 78: Failed to create groff font 'U-AB

Re: [Groff] Compiler error

On Monday 03 Sep 2012 19:02:59 mikkel meinike wrote: > I have tried to compile latest groff on my debian chroot on my android > tablet with ARM processor. Here I have this compilation error. I can see a > response to an email I have found from Ted that it is essential to give the > path to the font

Re: [Groff] Compiler error

On Monday 03 Sep 2012 19:02:59 mikkel meinike wrote: > I have tried to compile latest groff on my debian chroot on my android > tablet with ARM processor. Here I have this compilation error. I can see a > response to an email I have found from Ted that it is essential to give the > path to the font

Re: [Groff] passing groff special chars to pdfmark as bookmarks

On Wednesday 05 Sep 2012 06:31:41 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > [Please configure your e-mail program so that it replies to CCed > addresses also.] > > >> Minimum example, please, together with your calling sequence. > >> Werner > > > > Sure. > > > > Given original text file date string macros as : >

Re: [Groff] passing groff special chars to pdfmark as bookmarks

On Wednesday 05 Sep 2012 17:21:09 smo...@sacredlabor.com wrote: > Deri, > > That works right to PDF. Nice. > > For those that have used gs to assemble pdfs, setting various > pdf properties like permissions and pdf display variables, I wonder > how that is to be batched now that groff is going d

Re: [Groff] passing groff special chars to pdfmark as bookmarks

On Sunday 09 Sep 2012 16:28:04 smo...@sacredlabor.com wrote: > Can you explain in your own words what is happening with > .trin '\C'aq' please. > > I have a text procesing sequence that does not afford the time > at the moment to re-engineer how I build pdfs, gs / pdfroff. > > Relying on groff

Re: [Groff] Compiler error

On Tuesday 04 Sep 2012 07:32:48 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > The file you need to alter is font/devpdf/Foundry.in. [...] > > Deri, as I told you earlier: We need a configure test for that so that > people can specify a URW font directory. If it isn't found, the > `Foundry' script has to ignore URW

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