[Groff] Re: DESC question

2005-02-22 Thread Larry Kollar
Back from vacation > What exactly is the DESC file? It describes the capabilities of an output device. See the groff_font manpage for details of what the device does. > When I type in "groff" on my Debian testing box all it > does is wait for input (it doesn't return any output). Right. Giv

Re: [Groff] The quest for a high-end typesetting system: A fewquestions

2005-03-10 Thread Larry Kollar
e of years back, about how I got it working. You have to compile with WIDOW_CONTROL=1 set somewhere, turn it on, and make a couple of minor changes to paragraph macros. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://ho

Re: [Groff] funding for groff hacking?

2005-03-11 Thread Larry Kollar
tioned in the referenced message was added to the source tree IIRC. Some macro hacking might be required to completely implement the feature. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://home.alltel.net/kollar/utp/

Re: [Groff] questions about postscript and tex/latex output

2005-03-12 Thread Larry Kollar
for "html to latex" (use the quotes for a change!) to find some possible utilities. You could also use doclifter to transform to DocBook then transform that to *TeX, but you'd probably have to do some manual cleanup after each transformation. Hope that helps -- Larry Kollar k

[Groff] Updated patch: m.tmac

2005-03-14 Thread Larry Kollar
I've rewritten the m.tmac patch to reflect changes in www.tmac. No functional changes beyond the previous patch; it simply marks headings for grohtml and disables headers & footers. m.tmac.patch Description: Binary data -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l .

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

2005-03-14 Thread Larry Kollar
take the time to sit down and get familiar with it. I got stuck looking for a quote for the release note a while back, and I guess I'll just go with what I have for the announcement. (It's at http://home.alltel.net/~kollar/utp/press-release.txt if anyone hasn't seen it.) -- Larry K

Re: [Groff] Humor ...

2005-03-16 Thread Larry Kollar
e who would get the joke are already subscribed to this list. :-P -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://home.alltel.net/kollar/utp/ ___ Groff mailing list Gro

[Groff] www.tmac patch - lists

2005-03-17 Thread Larry Kollar
I've attached a patch to www.tmac and a test file (for the testsuite) that implements numbered and definition lists. One thing I'm not happy with yet is how list items get wrapped in paragraph tags, like this: blah blah foo I think that's grohtml getting a little too enthusiastic, but I haven

[Groff] Argh - updated www.tmac patch

2005-03-17 Thread Larry Kollar
I forgot the documentation update. Use this patch tarball instead. -- Larry www_tmac.tar.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

Re: [Groff] TeXifying groff possible?

2005-03-23 Thread Larry Kollar
document markup, especially parts that you like and want to repeat in your own documents. And at some point you need to stop reading and start writing. :-) -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://h

Re: [Groff] Spam from list member addresses

2005-03-31 Thread Larry Kollar
meone subscribed to the groff list -- or someone who knows someone (I doubt it's more than one degree of separation) has been infested. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://home.alltel.net/kollar/utp/ __

Re: [Groff] CVS Build Problem

2005-04-27 Thread Larry Kollar
off is easier to compile than many other Free packages of similar size. From what Werner & Larry Jones were saying, it sounds like it might be a compiler bug in BSD/OS. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival&q

Re: [Groff] groff for Mac OSX

2005-06-08 Thread Larry Kollar
so it's a good idea to keep it around to re-install after a routine system update. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://home.alltel.net/kollar/utp/ ___ Groff m

Re: [Groff] groff for Mac OSX

2005-06-08 Thread Larry Kollar
yself and put it on a webpage somewhere. I've built a .pkg of the 1.19.1 release. All dressed up & needs a website. ;-) -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://ho

Re: [Groff] What's missing for Unicode support of groff?

2005-07-07 Thread Larry Kollar
ng to end up doing most of the work, so it's his call in the end. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://home.alltel.net/kollar/utp/ ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.

Re: [Groff] Cross references

2005-09-06 Thread Larry Kollar
includes support (and documentation) for creating PDF files. Hope that helps. If you can't compile your own version, let us know what OS you're running & someone here can probably furnish you with a package. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n

[Groff] Type 1 fonts "dead but twitching"

2005-09-20 Thread Larry Kollar
p; there's at least one person out there who depends on groff's raw formatting speed. Could this be kicked to the post- processor? That would be the best of both worlds; choose grops when you value speed over flexibility and gronative (groos? gross?) when it's the other way arou

Re: [Groff] moving TOC to start

2005-09-26 Thread Larry Kollar
in the archives. -- Larry Kollark o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t "The hardest part of all this is the part that requires thinking." -- Paul Tyson, on xml-doc ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.o

Re: [Groff] moving TOC to start

2005-09-29 Thread Larry Kollar
> The `XS', `XA' and `XE' macros collect the TOC entries into a > diversion, which is flushed when `TC' is called; to cover the entire > document, this has to come at the end. This is the way `ms' has > always worked, both in groff and traditional troff implementations Just rank speculation, in t

Re: [Groff] moving TOC to start

2005-09-29 Thread Larry Kollar
> Would it not, perhaps, be better to provide a separate generalised > TOC processing macro module, `gentoc.tmac' say, which could then > be .mso'd by ms, mm, or any other macro package wishing to exploit > its functionality? I *like* this idea. The devil, as usual, is in the (implementation) deta

Re: [Groff] Converting groff input to LaTex input?

2005-10-05 Thread Larry Kollar
ng it, but you could try using -Thtml and (after cleaning up), use one of several HTML to LaTeX converters to finish the job. If you try it, make sure you use groff 1.19.2 or CVS -- there were several improvements to both grohtml and m.tmac to help them play better together. -- Larry Kollar

Re: [Groff] character garble

2005-10-16 Thread Larry Kollar
ng it over the default version. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://home.alltel.net/kollar/utp/ ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

Re: [Groff] slack4, groff and ps

2005-10-16 Thread Larry Kollar
characters. Finally, you may want to download a copy of "Unix Text Processing" (see the URL in my signature) if you need a tutorial. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" htt

Re: [Groff] XSL-FO to groff to PDF?

2005-10-19 Thread Larry Kollar
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Re: [Groff] Introduction

2005-10-19 Thread Larry Kollar
r can be with just a little help, that Word should be able to open it easily. I just tried opening a test HTML file in OpenOffice 1.x and it actually looked pretty good. Now getting back to groff from ODF, that will take a little more work -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l

Re: [Groff] Introduction

2005-10-19 Thread Larry Kollar
x tools I learned so long ago, I've been able to pull miracles out of my... back pocket. Things like sales people asking, "um, can you get the Word file back out of this PDF? Joe Random quit and deleted the doc file." -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l .

Re: [Groff] Introduction

2005-10-19 Thread Larry Kollar
g like it. I need to get UTP onto bkbits. I had tried doing it way back when it was offered, then I couldn't get on. This was during the time Linux and Bitkeeper parted ways, so I presume some bozo was DOSing the site. It seems to be OK now. So I'll get it put up there & open things

Re: [Groff] XSL-FO to groff to PDF?

2005-10-20 Thread Larry Kollar
ain it would be less work to transform directly to groff. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://home.alltel.net/kollar/utp/ ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

Re: [Groff] Introduction

2005-10-20 Thread Larry Kollar
ith markup in ASCII files instead of FrameMaker. Even if they're not doing the DTP end, if they send back translated source in Unicode, it wouldn't be hard to handle. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Re

Re: [Groff] Introduction

2005-10-20 Thread Larry Kollar
onster print jobs. (We could put that under a heading like, "Scale THIS!" :-D) -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://home.alltel.net/kollar/utp/ ___ Groff

Re: [Groff] Introduction

2005-10-22 Thread Larry Kollar
earch. Its only drawback is a heavy dependence on JavaScript, but otherwise it seems like a good way to put long documents online. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://home.alltel.net/kollar/utp/ __

Re: [Groff] XML and groff as frontend

2005-10-22 Thread Larry Kollar
the writer and the work involved. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://home.alltel.net/kollar/utp/ ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

Re: [Groff] Introduction

2005-10-23 Thread Larry Kollar
/w/kitzkikz.php?page=Sogudi -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://home.alltel.net/kollar/utp/ ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

Re: [Groff] XML and groff as frontend

2005-10-23 Thread Larry Kollar
dered important. But I agree with Alejandro that *roff is a nearly ideal markup language for hand-coding (I consider *TeX to be too verbose as well). The short commands don't get in your way and let you add markup while you're typing with little or no distraction. -- Larry Kolla

Re: [Groff] Re: Info versus man

2005-10-25 Thread Larry Kollar
e PDF when you can, and skip it (without aborting make) when you can't. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://home.alltel.net/kollar/utp/ ___ Groff mailing lis

Re: [Groff] Re: Info versus man

2005-10-26 Thread Larry Kollar
to disable building them. Now I don't blame you for balking; autoconf is a hideous beast & I don't like to poke around in there either. :-) -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://home.alltel.net/kollar

Re: [Groff] Groff wiki?

2005-10-28 Thread Larry Kollar
n occasion, There are Wiki variants that provide page rollback, diff, and so on, which provide some ways to mitigate WikiSpam, vandalism, and so forth. LyX (wiki.lyx.org) uses one called PmWiki (http://www.pmichaud.com/pub/pmwiki). -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t

Re: [Groff] Groff wiki?

2005-10-28 Thread Larry Kollar
ff is different and much larger. Strangely enough, it comments `lbl' as supported preprocessor. I'll bet that's a typo & it's supposed to be "tbl" instead. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UT

Re: [Groff] "creep" and booklets

2005-11-05 Thread Larry Kollar
. I'll take Free tools and a command line any day, though. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://home.alltel.net/kollar/utp/ ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

Re: [Groff] "creep" and booklets

2005-11-05 Thread Larry Kollar
a good binding needs craftsmanship. For which you need a binding press. I have a copy of a PDF showing rough plans for a DIY binding press on my computer at work, but the my VPN client is flaked up at the moment. If someone sends me a reminder Monday, I'll dig it up & post it. -- Larry Kollar

Book vise/binding press (was Re: [Groff] "creep" and booklets)

2005-11-07 Thread Larry Kollar
I couldn't find the PDF on my computer... but I had better luck finding the original in Google -- it was from a Linux Gazette article. The article includes notes that make the PDF more understandable (the link to the PDF is at the bottom of the article). http://linuxgazette.net/issue47/nielsen.

Re: [Groff] Groff Wiki

2005-11-08 Thread Larry Kollar
saved into folders of the same name... pending author permission, of course. If anyone wants to reprint an email of mine to the wiki, that's fine with me. And it's only fitting that the wiki itself is written in awk. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l .

Re: [Groff] UTP_book

2005-11-09 Thread Larry Kollar
mikkel meinike wrote: > Is it possible to format/compile the book UTP one chapter at a time, > so that I get one ps file for each chapter if yes what is the command > that I need for doeing this. make ch01 make ch02 ...etc... -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l .

Re: [Groff] Syntax highlighting on Mac OSX

2005-12-02 Thread Larry Kollar
. Vim for Mac (both Gvim and the vim shipped with Tiger) support syntax highlighting for general groff. There's a Java editor called jEdit that (I think) also can do it. Having vi codes programmed into my fingers over 20 years ago, I tend to not bother with other text editors. ;-) --

Re: [GROFF] Groff wiki?

2006-02-01 Thread Larry Kollar
t;download.dejavu" file to "download" or cat it to the end of the current download file. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://home.alltel.net/kollar/utp/ ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

Re: [Groff] Re: groff + mp

2006-02-24 Thread Larry Kollar
9's troff (based on AT&T, but extended to work with Unicode, more or less, IIRC). There are other troff implementations too, but AFAIK they are all based on the old AT&T troff. Interesting. How many of those are in active use, beyond formatting manpages, I wonder -- Larry Kolla

Fwd: [Groff] Re: begin page blues

2006-02-24 Thread Larry Kollar
; have started porting one manual I'm working on to groff. If the translators don't have a coronary when they see the source files, I'll do more. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://home.alltel.net/k

Re: [Groff] unicode support - where to compose?

2006-02-26 Thread Larry Kollar
ff & the postprocessor?). It would be nice to have access to all the TrueType and PostScript fonts installed on the system without having to build metric files and so forth. If I were to poke at this, where would I start? -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l .

Re: [Groff] unicode support - where to compose?

2006-02-27 Thread Larry Kollar
for UTP Revisited so those who are interested can get started soon. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://home.alltel.net/kollar/utp/ ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.o

Re: [Groff] Manuals in pdf format

2006-03-04 Thread Larry Kollar
> Miklos Somogyi wrote: > >>>The simplest thing to do is to use 9 after viii, not 1. >> >> This is against all rules of typography. > > I have seen quite a few pdf books/manuals that are against all rules of > typography, e.g. ... > > This "i, ii, ..., 1, 2" system was all right in the age

Re: [Groff] groff_ms manpage patch: missing header/footer info

2006-03-06 Thread Larry Kollar
Werner LEMBERG wrote: The groff_ms manpage doesn't describe the header & footer macros (HT, PT, BT). I've attached a patch containing brief descriptions of each. Thanks, applied. Please do the same for groff.texinfo. Here's the patch.  -- Larry Kollar k o l

Re: [Groff] Both Headers AND Footers with Mom Macros

2006-03-07 Thread Larry Kollar
users the trouble. Commercial documentation uses both headers and footers pretty often -- in over 20 years of technical writing, I can't remember seeing a "house style" that *doesn't* use both. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text

Re: [Groff] groff_ms manpage patch: missing header/footer info

2006-03-09 Thread Larry Kollar
et's try this again.  -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://unixtext.org/ ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

[Groff] groff_ms manpage patch: missing header/footer info

2006-03-10 Thread Larry Kollar
The groff_ms manpage doesn't describe the header & footer macros (HT, PT, BT). I've attached a patch containing brief descriptions of each. -- Larry msman.patch.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.

[Groff] pdfroff broken?

2006-03-10 Thread Larry Kollar
Running "make" on the CVS, I get this: [everything OK up to here] rm -f pdfmark.pdf export GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX; GROFF_COMMAND_PREFIX=''; export GROFF_BIN_DIR; GROFF_BIN_DIR=/Users/larry/Projects/groff/src/roff/groff; export GROFF_BIN_PATH; GROFF_BIN_PATH=`echo /Users/larry/Projects/ groff/src/r

Re: [Groff] pdfroff broken?

2006-03-12 Thread Larry Kollar
I did "make clean," updated, did a configure & make, and everything seems to be working properly now. Sorry for the false alarm. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival&q

Re: [Groff] tbl: Standard column width?

2006-03-12 Thread Larry Kollar
8x). "0x2000" Disable AGP 8x (forces 4x). .TE One thing I have noticed, when you don't use T{ T}, tbl won't wrap even if the row runs off the end of the paper. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l .

Re: [Groff] pdfroff broken?

2006-03-13 Thread Larry Kollar
Larry Kollar wrote: I did "make clean," updated, did a configure & make, and everything seems to be working properly now. Sorry for the false alarm. But then a trivial change to pdfroff.ms broke it again. I guess I should bite the bullet, install it, and see if that take

Re: [Groff] Adding fonts to groff -- instructions?

2006-03-13 Thread Larry Kollar
ut them getting stomped out when you upgrade. Also, I see the AddingFonts instructions I wrote for the Groff Wiki got completely replaced -- were they totally wrong or what? -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival&

Re: [Groff] pdfroff broken?

2006-03-14 Thread Larry Kollar
Keith MARSHALL wrote: Larry Kollar wrote, quoting himself: I did "make clean," updated, did a configure & make, and everything seems to be working properly now. Sorry for the false alarm. But then a trivial change to pdfroff.ms broke it again. pdfroff.ms??? That is

Re: [Groff] Adding fonts to groff -- instructions?

2006-03-16 Thread Larry Kollar
Heinz-Jürgen Oertel wrote: Also, I see the AddingFonts instructions I wrote for the Groff Wiki got completely replaced -- were they totally wrong or what? Larry, wasn't it http://www.groff-wiki.info/ConvertingTrueTypeFonts D'OH! You're right. -- Larry Kollar k o l l

[Groff] Re: [Fwd: Wrapping Text Around Pictures]

2006-03-20 Thread Larry Kollar
--- The tbl method. Unfortunately, this method won't automatically return to the left margin. .\" -- .TS expand; lw(2.1i) l . T{ .PSPIC -L foo.ps 2i T} T{ text text text T} .TE .\" -- --

Re: Re: [Groff] Re: [Fwd: Wrapping Text Around Pictures]

2006-03-22 Thread Larry Kollar
>> the MPIMG macro should be available via the -mwww >> macroset, which should also work with Postscript. > > Yes, I am aware of the www macros. The document I'm > writing is quite long, is full of -ms macros > This does not really seem like > the use for which -mwww is intended. Actually,

Re: [Groff] Inserting/importing jpeg photos into groff text?

2006-03-28 Thread Larry Kollar
gick.org/ - links to a binary that should work for you. Hope that helps! -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://unixtext.org/ ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org ht

[Groff] Anyone have a good -ms cheatsheet?

2006-03-30 Thread Larry Kollar
My daughter (high school age) is getting fed up with AppleWorks and TextEdit for writing reports, and is ready to try something new. I remember depending pretty heavily on a cheat sheet in my first little while with *roff, 20+ years ago. So before I re-invent the wheel, has anyone done it alrea

[Groff] (no subject)

2006-03-30 Thread Larry Kollar
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[Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths

2006-04-08 Thread Larry Kollar
Sourcing a file like this: .so ~/Library/XSL/html2ms.xsl Using either straight groff or soelim, I get the message: ./single.ms:207: can't open `~/Library/XSL/html2ms.xsl': No such file or directory It works with an explicit path. Is this a bug or a feature? -- Larry Kolla

Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths

2006-04-09 Thread Larry Kollar
as a Un*x idiom rather than a shell idiom. Do this instead: .so \V[HOME]/Library/XSL/html2ms.xsl That should do it -- thanks for the pointer. I really need to get a cheat sheet together.... -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: &qu

Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths

2006-04-10 Thread Larry Kollar
ent workaround and a real fix in CVS. Other things like TOC, Index, cross-references, and bitmap graphic support are supported through long-established workflows, without excess baggage where such things aren't needed. What do you see as major constraints with groff at this time? -- Lar

Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths

2006-04-11 Thread Larry Kollar
ot two PostScript printers] is a chimera that has led to all sorts of problems for technical writers who often *have* to publish the same documents as (usually) PDF and HTML. I like that phrase, "device optimized" -- it recognizes that different publishing media work differently

Re: [Groff] Need some troubleshooting help

2006-04-13 Thread Larry Kollar
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 Is that the version of groff that ships with OSX? Things *should* have

Re: [Groff] Need some troubleshooting help

2006-04-18 Thread Larry Kollar
/usr/share/groff/1.19.1/font/devps/DESC and change the line that begins with "papersize" to read "papersize letter" for a permanent fix. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Rev

[Groff] www.tmac patch (PIMG functionality)

2006-04-30 Thread Larry Kollar
compressed data -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://unixtext.org/ ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

Re: [Groff] Generating HTML / XML

2006-05-02 Thread Larry Kollar
B) gives you a fallback format if the CSS goes missing or a browser doesn't support it (or the user turned off CSS). Of course, you can use SPAN if you want the fallback to be plain text. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Te

Re: [Groff] Survey on Document Creation Software

2006-05-02 Thread Larry Kollar
-P I'd guess the "Other Commercial" is mostly split between Weird and FrameMaker. Kind of hard to tell, since "Other Commercial" is the *only* choice for commercial software. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix

Re: [Groff] www.tmac patch (PIMG functionality)

2006-05-02 Thread Larry Kollar
w placement of GIF and/or JPEG images as well as PNG... seems like older graphical browsers also would do XBM, but I don't know if they bother nowadays -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: &qu

Re: [Groff] on MacOSX (was: Odd problem escaping `.')

2006-05-04 Thread Larry Kollar
- even though I made a 1.19.1 package & keep it handy. I probably should make a 1.19.2 package too; I'm using a lot of the latest stuff (PDF, grohtml) and need more. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP

[Groff] Suggested tbl enhancement

2006-05-04 Thread Larry Kollar
'll be glad to test it. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://unixtext.org/ ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

[Groff] Some levity: How the other side does graphs

2006-05-04 Thread Larry Kollar
roduced in step 6, and use the Acrobat crop tool to crop the page to the size of the graphic image. and then re-save it. 8. Within any document where you want the graph to appear, import the PDF produced in step 7 by reference or copy, as appropriate. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l

Re: Re: [Groff] Suggested tbl enhancement

2006-05-04 Thread Larry Kollar
Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > It sounds like a good idea, but there are so many potential > > enhancements that would make tbl easier to live with that it's > > almost worth a rewrite. > > Hmm, can you post a TODO, please? My short list is primarily cosmetic (the goal is to require a minimal amoun

[Groff] Another small www.tmac patch

2006-05-10 Thread Larry Kollar
This patch provides PORPHANS support (if the register has been defined) for list items. Amazing, the little nits you find when you start using this stuff in the Real World. :-)  -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival&

Re: [Groff] Meeting Werner

2006-05-10 Thread Larry Kollar
ll we need is a Groff Anthem to be sung at the next International Groff Confernece ;) A Groff Anthem? That should be interesting. Maybe a variation of "Sing Hosanna," which would naturally start "Sing Ossanna" -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e

[Groff] Inline evaluation of calculations?

2006-05-11 Thread Larry Kollar
I was wondering if there was a way to, for example, print the result of \n%+1 without using a junk variable. I didn't see a request equivalent to "eval" in the manpages or the texinfo thing. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text P

Re: [Groff] Another small www.tmac patch

2006-05-14 Thread Larry Kollar
tch Description: Binary data -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://unixtext.org/ ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

[Groff] The permuted index from Hell

2006-06-14 Thread Larry Kollar
...'"), then wrote an awk script to pull what I wanted out of the MIB files. After a bit of debugging, and writing a Q&D ".xx" macro to format the index, I was ready to see what I had. What I had was 253 pages of 8- point text, formatted properly. Back to the drawin

Re: [Groff] The permuted index from Hell

2006-06-16 Thread Larry Kollar
y (of AT&T). And please, other GNU projects, could we have something more out of your manpages than a list of command-line options and "see the info file"? If we wanted to see the info file, we would have gone there. Grumble. Off to improve the ptx(1) pa

[Groff] Sun's troff now available

2006-06-23 Thread Larry Kollar
sed by Sun as part of OpenSolaris, which are a variant of ditroff, which, in turn, descends to the historical Unix troff that generated output for the C/A/T phototypesetter." There might be something worth cherry-picking. :-) -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l

Re: [Groff] Sun's troff now available

2006-06-27 Thread Larry Kollar
Joerg van den Hoff wrote: Larry Kollar wrote: I stumbled across this today, and didn't see anything about it in the archives. http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools.html that's rather interesting! installation is a bit funny: you have to edit `mk.config' and set l

Re: [Groff] Sun's troff now available

2006-07-02 Thread Larry Kollar
; to have smaller width, or whatever) so that it sticks out by the right amount. Ditto. Wasn't there a compile-time option for hanging punctuation at one time, similar to the widow/orphan option? A quick grep doesn't turn it up in the source, so perhaps I was hallucinating. -- La

Re: [Groff] groff 1.19.2 with pdfref

2006-07-25 Thread Larry Kollar
> I am using the pdfref macros from Kees Zeelenberg found here > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2001-01/msg00047.html. > > It works nicely together with the ms macros. I better should say > worked. We updated to version 1.19.2 and now it doesn't work > anymore. In the referenced message

Re: [Groff] making tbl created tables fit on the paper

2006-07-26 Thread Larry Kollar
Nick Stoughton wrote: > I've had similar problems with long tables, particularly where a column > is longer than a page ... that is, there are too many lines between > T{ and }T to fit this column on a single page. In this case, tbl says > > warning: page 236: table text block will not fit on

[Groff] Tables in .ig/.. blocks not ignored

2006-07-26 Thread Larry Kollar
Tables that *should* be commented out using the .ig / .. construct still appear in the output. I first noticed this in 1.19.2, but it also appears in the CVS. Here's an example file: .\" start -- .LP The following table should be seen: .TS allbox; cb cb n l . V

Re: [Groff] error in README-file of groff distribution?

2006-07-31 Thread Larry Kollar
> > I also had to use cvs login to get a checkout started (restoring > > important parts of an office computer). I added it to the wiki as > > well. > > Really? How comes? I'm not sure why. It was behind the firewall at work, and CVS to the "outside" has exhibited flaky behavior in the past (s

Re: [Groff] Address labels

2006-08-09 Thread Larry Kollar
John Poltorak wrote: > > Is there any way to use groff for creating addresses using standard Avery > labels? I wrote a "labels" macro package a while back; it has a definition file for Avery 5160 address labels. http://home.alltel.net/kollar/groff/ -- Larry __

Re: [Groff] explicit hyphen and numbers

2006-08-10 Thread Larry Kollar
Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Urs showed up an interesting problem in groff: A hyphen between two > numbers does *not* insert a breakpoint! To be more specific, the > .cflags values 2 and 4 of a character x are only active if the > characters before and after x both have non-zero hyphenation codes (as

Re: [Groff] explicit hyphen and numbers

2006-08-10 Thread Larry Kollar
Ted Harding wrote: > On 10-Aug-06 Steve Izma wrote: >> >> Well, I'll disagree. [...] when setting >> indexes on short lines (e.g., two columns on book page, which >> gives you about 10 to 12 picas, usually indented), any place >> where you can get a line break is very important. > > Yes, that d

Re: [Groff] grohtml and indentation

2006-08-18 Thread Larry Kollar
> I wonder why it is that paragraphs inside a -ms .RS/.RE block get turned > into a table by grohtml. > > The same happens with .IP. (maybe other requests too.) > > Wouldn't it be better if a were generated with an indentation? And > an unordered list for .IPs? > > For example... > > > .RS

Re: [Groff] Other PS fonts for groff not in Cygwin distribution?

2006-08-19 Thread Larry Kollar
Clarke Echols wrote: > I would like to have a broader selection of fonts on my system, but > dislike the idea of paying $50 or more each for them. > > Are there any sites where one can download *.pfb or *.pfa files that > can be used with groff? There are lots of sites with free fonts; I think

Re: [Groff] Blocks of text in -ms

2006-08-25 Thread Larry Kollar
.DE See "Displays and keeps" in groff_ms(7) for more variations. -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://unixtext.org/ ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org ht

Re: [Groff] help required regarding groff/psroff

2006-08-28 Thread Larry Kollar
before using up paper. I use this method on MacOSX, since my work requires PDF output anyway. Hope that helps -- Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival" http://unixtext.org/ __

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