On Saturday, 21 May 2005 at 0:50:25 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
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> Nelson Beebe told me that the following book has been typeset
> recently with groff:
>
> title ="The Design and Implementation of the {FreeBSD}
>Operating System",
Correct. By chance I was talkin
Sorry, replied to the old address.
Greg
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> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 08:36:16 +0930
> From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc
On Wednesday, 7 September 2005 at 11:51:13 +0100, Keith MARSHALL wrote:
> Meg McRoberts wrote:
>
>> Does ps2pdf no longer work? It worked fine for version 17.1
>> but I haven't been able to get it to work for ps files generated
>> with 19.1. I'll have to try it again with the new version.
>
> `p
On Thursday, 22 September 2005 at 19:16:28 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
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>> So, now, there are many macro-packages me, ms, mm, man that I glanced at
>> So, which macro-package do you suggest me to use? what are the uses of
>> each package?
>
> For man pages, use man or mdoc. For other documents i
On Thursday, 20 October 2005 at 15:07:32 -0400, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:51:45PM -0600, D. E. Evans wrote:
>> groff is now a major component in a majority (I would think) of
>> UNIX systems, and UNIX variants. It is used for online manuals,
>> and print manuals; it is u
On Thursday, 20 October 2005 at 15:37:12 -0600, Clarke Echols wrote:
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> I'd like to create the equivalent of a PowerPoint presentation using
> PDF or other reasonable display. It would be nice to be able to use
> the entire screen instead of a window, like PowerPoint does. It has
> to run on Win
On Friday, 21 October 2005 at 13:26:33 +0530, Manas Laha wrote:
> Ted Harding's post on the above topic a few days ago was great.
Seconded.
> Not only did I learn about how to print a page background (something
> that I occasionally wanted to do but didn't know how), but his
> several examples of
On Friday, 21 October 2005 at 10:57:26 -0500, Michael Parson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:15:57AM +0300, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>
>
>
>> The real reason for this reply is: how do you *display* PDF slide
>> sets? I currently use acroread, which renders
What a lot of traffic there has been on this list lately! I've read
all the messages in this thread that I have received, and this seems
to be the best one to hang my reply on; but I've taken other thoughts
into account.
On Saturday, 22 October 2005 at 14:36:36 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>>> Th
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html]
Long-short syndrome.
On Saturday, 22 October 2005 at 14:56:35 -0600, Clarke Echols wrote:
> Larry Kollar wrote:
>>
>
>> I use structured FrameMaker at work to write documentation, and one
>> of the easier ways I've found to get
On Saturday, 22 October 2005 at 16:44:12 -0500, Alejandro Lpez-Valencia wrote:
> On 10/22/05, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 03:47:19PM -0400, Larry Kollar wrote:
>>> I use structured FrameMaker at work to write documentation, and one of
>>> the easier ways I've found to get tex
On Friday, 10 March 2006 at 17:28:51 +0300, Michail Vidiassov wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> let us run some survey.
> Please, tell us, how do you use groff PS output.
I use PostScript output for almost everything. My book "The Complete
FreeBSD" (http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/) is written
On Sunday, 9 April 2006 at 10:00:25 -0400, Larry Kollar wrote:
> Werner LEMBERG asked, perhaps rhetorically:
>
>> Why on earth do you expect tilde expansion
>> within groff?
>
> I'm used to it working in vi(m) and I seem to remember it working in
> awk. I've also seen it work in X11-based file dia
On Tuesday, 11 April 2006 at 0:51:07 +0100, Keith Marshall wrote:
> On Monday 10 April 2006 11:19 pm, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>>> > I'm used to it working in vi(m) and I seem to remember it working
>>> > in awk. I've also seen it work in X11-based file dialogs. Over
>>> > time, I suppose I've com
On Thursday, 4 May 2006 at 21:48:41 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
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>> Anyway, it's kind of surprising that there's no "pointsize" global
>> option for tables.
>
> Do we really need this?
It sounds like a good idea, but there are so many potential
enhancements that would make tbl easier to live wi
On Tuesday, 9 May 2006 at 15:57:00 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
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>>> Now all we need is a Groff Anthem to be sung at the next International
>>> Groff Confernece ;)
>>
>> So long as it's an improvement on the "Free Software Song" -- see:
>>
>> http://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.html
>>
I have a design document that I need to output in two forms: as a
properly typeset PostScript file (troff) and in plain text (nroff). I
want the latter not to have page breaks. I've tried a number of
things, but I have two problems:
1. I can't find a number register than I can tweak to change t
On Tuesday, 30 May 2006 at 21:55:45 -0600, Clarke Echols wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> I have a design document that I need to output in two forms: as a
>> properly typeset PostScript file (troff) and in plain text (nroff). I
>> want the latter not to
On Friday, 11 August 2006 at 0:11:05 +0200, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
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>> BTW, in German, AFAIK, you should use `-', not \[en].
>
> Are you sure about this? I just checked a few examples
> (real books, so I assume these were created by professional
> typesetters) both old (letterpress stuff, yay!)
On Sunday, 15 September 2024 at 0:38:37 +, hoh...@posteo.de wrote:
>
> 'catenate' is missing in Oxford learners and Oxford Compact Dictionary
> as well. It's objected by my mail client also. Seems to be American
> English.
Sadly many dictionaries omit less common words. As Doug says, both
ar
On Tuesday, 9 July 2019 at 4:30:56 +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Kirill,
>
> Kirill S Sapelkin wrote on Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 07:19:17PM -0700:
>
>> Just started using groff and mom (had been using LaTeX) for letters so far.
>> So far it seems elegant.
>>
>> Could not find a way to automaticaly
On Tuesday, 13 October 2020 at 22:49:03 +0200, J.-J. wrote:
> Le mardi 13 octobre 2020 à 14:41 +0200, Johann Höchtl a écrit :
>> * What would be a good starting point (tutorial) into troff and its
>> core principles?
>>
>> * What is the canonical documentation of troff all the existing
>> implement
On Wednesday, 14 October 2020 at 10:36:45 +1100, Damian McGuckin wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>
>> An excellent book, and one that I have used a lot. But nobody can claim
>> that it's up-to-date (it predates groff), and there are many
On Wednesday, 14 October 2020 at 11:12:26 +1100, Damian McGuckin wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>
>> I do, notably the PostScript display requests.
>
> If you mean the
>
> \X'ps: file '
>
> OK. Point take
On Tuesday, 2 September 2008 at 11:33:30 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there a way to "force linebreak" in groff?
>
> Sorry ask questions that has been asked before. Reason for not STFW:
> google always return "BR" when I asks to search for "". And also
> return a lot of pages where raw htm
There's currently a discussion going on in the FreeBSD project about
replacing groff (which is part of the base system, mainly to process
man pages) with a specialized man page processor, and relegate groff
to the Ports Collection as an add-on. During the discussion, Plan 9
troff was mentioned (ht
On Tuesday, 10 February 2015 at 22:56:13 +, Deri James wrote:
> On Tue 10 Feb 2015 20:53:42 Jones, Larry wrote:
>> "ROFF is a program which generates microfilm and 7-track binary
>> magnetic tape for off line processing on an IBM Magnetic Tape /
>> Selectric Typewriter..."
>
> I loved my select
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