[Groff] japanese kana fonts

2005-02-21 Thread Erich Hoffmann
Hello all. I started learning japanese and it could be of great help if I had a japanese kana (and perhaps kanji) typesetting method. Is that possible in groff? Here is how I tried to do it on my own: (1) I googled on groff and japanese. There seems to be a "ja-groff" or "jgroff" with th

Re: [Groff] grops and Unicode, Unicode in general.

2005-05-17 Thread Erich Hoffmann
Hello Wartan. Am Samstag, 14. Mai 2005 22:50 schrieb Wartan Hachaturow: > What is the current status regarding the denoted combination? > I would really like to have cyrillic working out-of-the-box (together with > other scripts, but Russian cyrillic worries me most :) with (at least) > PostScript

[Groff] tables in a macro

2006-06-12 Thread Erich Hoffmann
Hello. I have the following problem with groff.19.1 on a SuSe 10.1. with the ms package and html output. When I insert a table, everything goes well: .TS allbox; cl. A table .TE But when I put that into a macro: .de ATABLE .TS allbox; cl. A table .TE ..

Re: [Groff] tables in a macro

2006-06-13 Thread Erich Hoffmann
Am Montag, 12. Juni 2006 14:27 schrieben Sie: > > In general, you cannot have .TS ... .TE within a macro, only within a > diversion. For tables in macros please have a look at the hew hdtbl > package in the CVS. > > >Werner > Thank you. I downloaded version 0.91 from the homepage, but with -Tht

Re: [Groff] tables in a macro

2006-06-14 Thread Erich Hoffmann
Am Dienstag, 13. Juni 2006 15:34 schrieben Sie: > > > For tables in macros please have a look at the hew hdtbl > > > package in the CVS. > > > > Thank you. I downloaded version 0.91 from > > the homepage, but with -Thtml it outputs a mass of > > -tags. > > Ah, hdtbl isn't yet set up for HTML outpu

[Groff] generating macro files

2006-06-26 Thread Erich Hoffmann
Hello all. I'm rather hesitating to present my project here which perhaps does not make sense to anyone but myself. It is a tmac file that formats and outputs tmac files, called "ac.tmac". The tarball is in bz2 format 15KB size (tarball with ac.tmac alone 9,5KB), containing the tmac file itse

Re: [Groff] generating macro files

2006-06-28 Thread Erich Hoffmann
Am Montag, 26. Juni 2006 18:25 schrieben Sie: > This looks fascinating. It would be very useful for documenting some > of the less user-accessible tmac packages (-me, especially). > > Can you make it available somewhere for download? - Robert. > I'd prefer that someone looks at it before i put it

Re: [Groff] translations

2006-10-20 Thread Erich Hoffmann
Am Dienstag, 17. Oktober 2006 16:18 schrieb Werner LEMBERG: > >Well, before doing that it would be interesting to know which > >languages groff enthusiasts are really using -- I'm not talking > >about man pages but real documents... > > > > I agree. German immediately comes to mind for

Re: [Groff] A not strictly groff question

2010-01-28 Thread Erich Hoffmann
Am Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:24:21 +1100 schrieb Miklos Somogyi : > Hello Folks, > > This is not a groff question but I suspect that many of you have the > expertise and experience to solve this riddle. > > I bought a diNovo Edge for Mac, the best keyboard I have ever had. > Except that the function k

[Groff] Fw: utf8 encoded input and soelim

2010-01-28 Thread Erich Hoffmann
Hello all. (By mistake I first sent this posting to g...@groff.org instead of gr...@gnu org. Oh my.) I'm experimenting with the -K utf8 option, because I'd like to input utf8 formatted source code: groff -s -K utf8 -ms -Tps Input.ms > Output.ps This works, as long as I have one single input fi

Re: [Groff] Fw: utf8 encoded input and soelim

2010-01-28 Thread Erich Hoffmann
Am Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:58:35 +0100 (CET) schrieb Werner LEMBERG : > > > I'm experimenting with the -K utf8 option, because I'd like to input [...] > > But when I use > > additional files with the .so request, the characters are not > > recognized. What am I doing wrong? > > Nothing. This is a kn

Re: [Groff] Fw: utf8 encoded input and soelim

2010-01-29 Thread Erich Hoffmann
Am Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:43:29 +0100 (CET) schrieb Werner LEMBERG : > > It's a simple pipeline. > > You are probably misunderstanding. I was wondering whether the > internal pipeline in the groff binary (this is, how the -K and -s > command line option interact) should be changed that way. Sorry I

[Groff] editing the head-section in grohtml

2010-05-07 Thread Erich Hoffmann
Hello all. I know that when I generate html output I can add information to the section of the HTML with .HEAD. I'm using this macro to add a link to an external stylesheet. This works perfectly, but I have to insert the line .HEAD into every file. Is it possible to edit the whole sectio

Re: [Groff] editing the head-section in grohtml

2010-05-09 Thread Erich Hoffmann
Am Sun, 09 May 2010 06:49:28 +0200 (CEST) schrieb Werner LEMBERG : > > > Is it possible to edit the whole section, [...] > > [...] but I have to insert the line > > > > .HEAD > > > > into every file. > > Why is this a problem? It is no 'problem' and I can manage very well. Background is tha

Re: [Groff] groff 1.21 released

2011-01-16 Thread Erich Hoffmann
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 11:15:55AM -0500, Steve Izma wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 10:32:26AM +0100, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > Subject: Re: [Groff] groff 1.21 released > > > > > > Groffers everywhere, I'm sure, join me in expressing our > > > > appreciation. > > > > > Joined :) > > > > Me to

[Groff] Is it possible to split macro arguments?

2011-07-02 Thread erich hoffmann
Hello. I googled and tried a lot for this question, found nothing, I think that what I want is not possible - so I'm asking here to make sure that I am not missing something. - For a special text, a sort of notation of chords for the accordion, I want a macro roughly like this: .de ch \\$1\d\s-8\

Re: [Groff] Is it possible to split macro arguments?

2011-07-03 Thread erich hoffmann
Am Sat, 02 Jul 2011 15:56:59 +0100 schrieb Ralph Corderoy : > Hi Erich, > > Ted wrote: > > There is the request .substring which you could use to perform such > > operations, provided you write the macro in terms of known > > lengths/positions of substrings: > > There's also .length to get the l

Re: [Groff] Is it possible to split macro arguments?

2011-07-03 Thread erich hoffmann
Am Sat, 02 Jul 2011 15:40:31 +0100 (BST) schrieb (Ted Harding) : > On 02-Jul-11 13:55:10, erich hoffmann wrote: [...] > > > > Is it possible to split arguments into single characters so that I > > could > > write > > > > .ch A4a72 > > > > and

Re: [Groff] Old groff versions

2011-12-25 Thread erich hoffmann
Am Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:48:13 +0100 schrieb Tadziu Hoffmann : > > > > PS: Twenty years ago groff 1.0 has been released. > > So groff, Linux, and Vim are about the same age... > perhaps this is why I am most at home with groff, Linux and Vim? erch

[Groff] editing chinese?

2012-02-28 Thread erich hoffmann
Hello. I'm editing chinese texts, which I can do very well in plain text and format them to printable output with the paps filter (at http://paps.sourceforge.net), the texts look like: 你 家 有 几 口 人 ? 你们 学校 有 多少 学生 ? 我 想 , 大概 有 三 万 个 . 老板 让 我 去 那里 工作 . Then, I know how to do that with

Re: [Groff] Eric Raymond on groff and TeX

2012-07-04 Thread erich hoffmann
Am Thu, 03 May 2012 23:13:32 +0100 (BST) schrieb (Ted Harding) : > To go back to Anton's original posting, where he quoted > Eric Raymond: > [...] > All your base are belong to us! > > The "" and in the line > above are called markup tags, or just tags > for short. They are

Re: [Groff] Where do we go from here?

2013-11-15 Thread Erich Hoffmann
Am Fri, 15 Nov 2013 15:53:28 + schrieb Gaius Mulley : > Peter Schaffter writes: > > > I've been dreading the day Werner stepped down as lead developer. > > Werner, you have fulfilled the role perfectly, and I know I speak > > for everyone on the list when I say you have earned not only our >

Re: [Groff] Mission statement, second draft

2014-04-06 Thread Erich Hoffmann
Am Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:44:21 -0400 schrieb Peter Schaffter : > Here's the second draft of the mission statement, incorporating > suggestions from Ingo, Eric, Pierre-Jean, and others. It's starting > to come into focus, although a third pass will probably be necessary > before we commit to it. Up

Re: [Groff] tables in a macro

2006-06-13 Thread Erich Hoffmann ggi
Hello! > Am Monday 12 June 2006 14:43 schrieb Tadziu Hoffmann: > > The following works: Thank you very much, Tadziu. It works, and now the next problem arises... :) Am Dienstag, 13. Juni 2006 07:56 schrieb Rüdiger Härtel: [...] > The following didn't work. Seems I am missing something > > .eo