Re: Richard Steven's Macros

2024-09-15 Thread Meg McRoberts via
Which book?  _Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment_ mentions a groff package written by James Clark.The _Network Programming Vol 1: Network APIs and Sockets" also mentions this package as well as some tools andscripts written by Dave Hanson, Gary Wright, Jon Bentley, and Brian Kernighan

Re: Richard Steven's Macros

2024-09-15 Thread Meg McRoberts via
3:16:38 AM PDT, Damian McGuckin wrote: On Sun, 15 Sep 2024, Meg McRoberts via wrote: > Which book?  _Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment_ mentions a > groff package written by James Clark.The _Network Programming Vol 1: > Network APIs and Sockets" also mentions this

Re: Richard Steven's Macros

2024-09-15 Thread Meg McRoberts via
Whoops, forgot to include the link: W. Richard Stevens' Home Page | | | | | | | | | | | W. Richard Stevens' Home Page | | | On Sunday, September 15, 2024 at 03:26:30 AM PDT, Meg McRoberts via wrote: Rich's homepage is still available.  Maybe it

Re: [groff_www] Macro for codeblocks?

2021-09-05 Thread Meg McRoberts via
Which macro set are you using?  For mm, I think .DS/.DE used to do thisbut it's been a while and things may have changed. Try the following: .DS fun() {         echo "hello" > /dev/null 2>&1; } .DE I added some additional spaces in front of the echo line -- I think the normis to use 8 spaces or

Re: [groff_www] Macro for codeblocks?

2021-09-05 Thread Meg McRoberts via
Shoot!  This mail doesn't look like what I typed!  Let me try the formatting of the code snippet again... On Sunday, September 5, 2021, 1:56:32 AM PDT, Meg McRoberts via wrote: Which macro set are you using?  For mm, I think .DS/.DE used to do thisbut it's been a while

Re: [groff_www] Macro for codeblocks?

2021-09-05 Thread Meg McRoberts via
Gr -- I give up, but the .DS/.DI should be on separate lines... On Sunday, September 5, 2021, 2:31:21 AM PDT, Meg McRoberts via wrote: Shoot!  This mail doesn't look like what I typed!  Let me try the formatting of the code snippet again...     On Sunday, September 5, 20

Re: EQN User's Guide

2023-05-18 Thread Meg McRoberts via
It might be worth contacting Brian Kernighan and asking for his blessing.He has always been a very nice person and I suspect you could worksomething out.  At the very least, I'm sure he would not hurl expletivesat you for asking ;-) On Thursday, May 18, 2023 at 04:19:18 AM PDT, Damian McGuc