Re: [Groff] mom: Some follow-up questions

2005-03-12 Thread Jon Snader
r crossreferences together with mom? I browsed the archives > > and found out that e.g. Jon Snader has some xref macros. > > I haven't tested this, but I'm almost certain the answer is: not > without modification, although I'd welcome the opportunity to be > prov

Re: [Groff] mom: Some follow-up questions

2005-03-12 Thread Jon Snader
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 11:17:45AM -0500, Peter Schaffter wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2005, Jon Snader wrote: > > I do have cross reference macros that I use for my books. > > > Peter, if you'd like to include them in mom or use them as a > > starting point, you'

Re: [Groff] getting .na, .nh thruout doc for nroff

2005-03-16 Thread Jon Snader
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:08:59PM -0500, Dorai Sitaram wrote: > I'd like to avoid adjustment (justification) and hyphenation on a document > but only if it's being processed by nroff.if n). In essence, > > .if n .na > .if n .nh > > should hold for every paragraph. What's a robust way to do th

Re: [Groff] Line fragments with .TS and .PSPIC

2005-08-23 Thread Jon Snader
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 09:33:43PM +0200, Bernd Warken wrote: > > > Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 22.08.05 16:26:08: > > > > > Isn't there a possibility to change `groff' such that it is not > > > necessary to redefine .TS and .TE? > > > > Please elaborate. > > The `groff' .TS

Re: [Groff] moving TOC to start

2005-09-29 Thread Jon Snader
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 08:11:53AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > Uh, oh, I wasn't aware that you use this indeed very nasty strategy > within pdfroff. As Tadziu suggested in another mail, groff should > behave like LaTeX (and I was incorrectly assuming that the ms macros > already do someth

Re: [Groff] moving TOC to start

2005-09-29 Thread Jon Snader
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 10:53:59AM +0100, Keith MARSHALL wrote: > > The problem with groff's `write' requests is that they don't work, > if the user fails to specify the `-U' flag, when invoking groff. > > This flag activates the so called `unsafe' mode. While it probably > isn't the case, this

Re: [Groff] character garble

2005-10-15 Thread Jon Snader
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 02:53:04PM -0400, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: > > It does work. I use OpenBSD 3.7 every day for all my work. > He has messed up something on his system. > Perhaps he didn't source his .profile/.bashrc after he changed it. jcs __

Re: [Groff] Introduction

2005-10-18 Thread Jon Snader
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 08:49:50PM +0100, Deri James wrote: > > I am not persuaded a gui would improve groff adoption (has LyX helped > LaTex?). Even if such a GUI were available, who would use it? As Deri says, LyX is available for LaTeX, and LaTeX probably does a better job at typesetting tha

Re: [Groff] Introduction

2005-10-19 Thread Jon Snader
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:14:28AM +0100, Keith MARSHALL wrote: > > I've tried various editors in my time, Emacs among them. But, I > keep going back to vi, (or (g)vim), for personal choice. > In the end, there can be only one. jcs ___ Groff mailin

Re: [Groff] Need some troubleshooting help

2006-04-14 Thread Jon Snader
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 09:16:44PM -0400, Larry Kollar wrote: > Good to see you again, Michael! > > > I've a wierd problem I'm trying to track down. Hopefully my > > explanation will make sense. First, some software versions: > > MacIntosh OS X version 10.4.5 running groff 1.19.1 and gv 3.6.1

Re: [Groff] Setting different page lengths for troff and nroff

2006-05-31 Thread Jon Snader
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:32:00AM +0930, 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 have page breaks. I've tried a number of > things, but I have t

Re: [Groff] Status of the portability work, and plans for the future

2007-01-09 Thread Jon Snader
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:02:11PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > Gunnar, Linux man(1) can do this *now*. I added the code myself over a > year ago. All that's needed is for HTML pages to be in the right > places under /usr/man and it's game over. Of course, if you were > insistent on a cra

Re: [Groff] Status of the portability work, and plans for the future

2007-01-09 Thread Jon Snader
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 12:03:14PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > Your thinking is intelligent and cogent -- but your factual > premise is wrong, leading you to an incorrect model of my > assumptions. On my usual desktop arrangement, rendering man > pages in a browser *would* in fact have the

Re: [Groff] Status of the portability work, and plans for the future

2007-01-09 Thread Jon Snader
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 02:26:38PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > For me, and I think many others, > > getting a man page in an editor window does make sense and I > > wouldn't want to lose that ability. > > I agreed with you about this last time. I still don't see

Re: [Groff] Choosing a portability target

2007-01-11 Thread Jon Snader
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 08:49:37PM -0700, Clarke Echols wrote: > [...] > I was somewhat hesitant to really accept the longer names > allowed by groff because I usually prefer "backwards > compatibility", but after taking advantage of it, I find it > very nice in terms of keeping macros readable

Re: [Groff] RE: Small bug in groff 1.19.2 footnote number contro

2007-09-17 Thread Jon Snader
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 06:57:06PM +0100, Keith Marshall wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 17:33 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > So I ask the question of the group: > > > > > > Do we want to implement "backward compatibility" of > > > undocumented things like the number register :p in >

Re: [Groff] Signaling diagrams?

2008-11-24 Thread Jon Snader
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Larry Kollar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a program to generate signdling diagrams out there? I sure could > use one right now > > -- Larry > > > What kind of signaling diagrams? Trains, cells, ...? For some applications, I've found Graphviz makes an ex

Re: [Groff] changing .em behaviour?

2009-04-21 Thread Jon Snader
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: [snip] > What do you think about enabling this bizarre behaviour of `em' only > in compatibility mode? As already mentioned, I can't think of any > useful application. This would save us from introducing the proposed > `em1' request. It