[Groff] calling all automake'ers ...

2015-04-16 Thread Mike Bianchi
e.in , etc. Is there any autoconf/automake guru out there willing to help me get this right? Discussion can be found at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44768 -- Mike Bianchi

Re: [Groff] calling all automake'ers ...

2015-04-18 Thread Mike Bianchi
Hi Mike, > > On Thu, Apr 16 2015 at 08:23:21 PM, Mike Bianchi wrote: > > I've been dealing with updates to contrib/gmkdiff within groff, and there > > is an issue that I could use some help with ... > > > > Over the years, the bash-isms of the original shell s

Re: [Groff] calling all automake'ers ...

2015-04-18 Thread Mike Bianchi
;#ifndef foo" > print "." > next > } > > END { > print "w\nq" > } > ' >foo.ed > cat foo.ed > echo > > sed -i '/^\t=/d' foo.ed > ed -s foo.new > diff <(diff -Dfoo foo bar) foo.new && echo ok > --8<--snip-- > > It's not had much testing as I've just knocked it up, but it shows the > idea. And you might want to ditch the cpp commands and switch to > something that's nicer to handle in the rest of the script. Or maybe do > the .mk-up directly. > > Cheers, Ralph. > -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: [Groff] Heirloom TBL problem

2015-06-22 Thread Mike Bianchi
agine themselves to be experts in groff _and_ the macro packages. I am one such person, and have many sad tails to tell of my ignorance. -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: [Groff] Heirloom TBL problem

2015-06-22 Thread Mike Bianchi
, it would involve making the warning within the .PGFORM dcoumentation unnecessary. -- Mike Bianchi

Re: [Groff] MIssion statement

2015-07-08 Thread Mike Bianchi
" documents they once were. Occasionally I use the hack of extracting the PostScript with pdf2ps(1) and then use ps2pdf12(1) to turn it back into PDF. I've no idea why it works; it is just a lazy get-around. -- Mike Bianchi

Re: [Groff] Trouble switching to groff, macro gives syntax error...

2015-09-15 Thread Mike Bianchi
d i am trying to use the ".1C" macro. > > Any ideas? > > Marisa Try changing .1C to .DS and add the line .DE at the bottom. Does that get closer to what you want? -- Mike Bianchi

Re: [Groff] Groff - weird error with line spacing

2015-10-08 Thread Mike Bianchi
cat manual.ps | gv /dev/stdin gv: Cannot open file /dev/stdin (No data available) cat manual.ps | ( sleep 1; gv /dev/stdin ) gv: Cannot open file /dev/stdin (No data available) I suspect a funny race condition involving pipes. All my shell code using gv employ files na

Re: [Groff] Problem with MM spacing with macro immediately after a heading (H)

2015-12-23 Thread Mike Bianchi
he real fix please? > .\" Finish of example > > Regards - Damian > > Pacific Engineering Systems International, 277-279 Broadway, Glebe NSW 2037 > Ph:+61-2-8571-0847 .. Fx:+61-2-9692-9623 | unsolicited email not wanted here > Views & opinions here are mine and not those of any past or present employer > -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: [Groff] Problem with MM spacing with macro immediately after a heading (H)

2015-12-23 Thread Mike Bianchi
> .TE > or > .H 2 "Another Heading" > .DS 0 > .\" some display which needs to be done literally > . > .DE -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: [Groff] *roff for desktop publishing - is it feasible?

2016-10-26 Thread Mike Bianchi
the content. So I have used [ntg]roff all these years because I can concentrate on the content. The presentation (once I've picked and implemented a style) takes care of itself. I even use an nroff filter I wrote in the 1980s on my outgoing e-mail for exactly that reason. -- Mike

Re: [Groff] Applying commands to all pages

2016-11-10 Thread Mike Bianchi
d.pdf or troff-revised.pdf Are you referring to the 1992 version by Brian Kernighan? THAT I can find. -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: [Groff] mom and toggling pagination

2016-12-07 Thread Mike Bianchi
ong ago I developed the habit of putting lines consisting of only a . wherever I wanted some white-space to help my understanding of the document content as opposed to the formated document appearance. It sometimes makes editing the groff input much easier. -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-

Re: [Groff] Trying to use tabs and tab stops in groff

2017-04-05 Thread Mike Bianchi
00- > .tc - > Bob Williams\t3/3/56\t(999) 555- > .fi > .P > A sentence to end the example. > > > I get a result with everything smashed together, as if the "\t"s weren't > there at all. > > Any idea what I'm doing wrong? > >

Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages

2017-05-03 Thread Mike Bianchi
inally did, and \(pl and \(mi come > from the the current font per the previous paragraph, they > become redundant. > > So I remain confused. > > Doug -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages

2017-05-03 Thread Mike Bianchi
to gain support. :-) > How to produce it is the issue. Absolutely. I propose wc -l if - was \N'45' It would make sense for future generations. As a first generation UNIX citizen it is interesting to contemplate how much longer the man pages groff documents will be relevant. -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages

2017-05-04 Thread Mike Bianchi
complicated than _I_ would like. Typing \(hy for hyphen would have been a heavy burden, especially in the absence of the .char groff extension. Probably the best solution available now is fixing any incorrect documentation so as to speak truth. -- Mike Bianchi

Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files

2017-07-22 Thread Mike Bianchi
utf8 foo ? see man 1 groff : -k Preprocess with preconv . ... -s Preprocess with soelim . That way groff knows the crucial ordering, etc. -- Mike Bianchi

Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files

2017-07-22 Thread Mike Bianchi
Woops. Never mind. Mike On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 12:08:29PM -0400, Mike Bianchi wrote: > On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 05:00:37PM +0200, E. Hoffmann wrote: > > Am Fri, 21 Jul 2017 16:28:04 -0400 > > schrieb

Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files

2017-07-22 Thread Mike Bianchi
convert just because a "better way" comes along. Remember when the "modern" way to archive was to put everything onto microfiche? -- Mike Bianchi

Re: [Groff] mom : unicode in .INCLUDE'd files

2017-07-23 Thread Mike Bianchi
. The order of the checks I perform are: BOM UTF-8 UTF-16 (newline) UTF-16 (null distribution) : : -- Mike Bianchi

Re: [Groff] parallel text processing ; vertical and horizontal mode

2017-09-07 Thread Mike Bianchi
089 09814 08943 098431 0894132 0 = = = = = = = = = = -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: [Groff] pic.ps

2017-09-27 Thread Mike Bianchi
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 11:43:40AM -0400, Doug McIlroy wrote: > The Fedora system I have access to lacks /usr/share/doc/groff, and > in particular the wonderful tutorial /usr/share/doc/groff/pic.ps. On Debian 8 locate pic.ps returns /usr/share/doc/groff-base/pic.ps.gz --

Re: [groff] * SL * Gpresent version 2.4 Released

2017-11-16 Thread Mike Bianchi
e use of the PAUSE macro, it can also be used > for making slides. > > Enjoy, > Bob -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: [groff] Gpresent version 2.4 Released

2017-11-16 Thread Mike Bianchi
useful/gpresent/ -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: [groff] Problems redefining macro $c for -me macros

2017-12-03 Thread Mike Bianchi
> > eqn as part of the inline equation delimeters set beforehand with `delim > > $$'. Moving the `.de $c' definition to before the `.EQ' to `.EN' block > > would seem the simplest solution. > > > > -- > > Cheers, Ralph. > > https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy > > -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: [groff] How does one recreate the \(bs symbol?

2018-01-10 Thread Mike Bianchi
Sans), so I guess it's somewhat of an > "official" rendering, although the coordinates are probably > munged a bit as a result of embedding in the PDF. > > > .\" > .\" > .char \(bs \X'ps: import ATa

Re: [groff] How does one recreate the \(bs symbol?

2018-01-10 Thread Mike Bianchi
&chips=q:bell+system+logo,g_3:vintage -- Mike Bianchi

[groff] Macros in their own package ...

2018-02-21 Thread Mike Bianchi
e a Z macro package containing both Z_Aroff.tmac and Z_Broff.tmac is something to be hope for. -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: [groff] Macros in their own package ...

2018-03-21 Thread Mike Bianchi
the ideas and features available in Plan 9 Troff, Heirloom Troff, and Groff. He has an ambitious hobby :) -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: [groff] groff as the basis for comprehensive documentation?

2018-04-25 Thread Mike Bianchi
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 03:58:33PM -0400, Steve Izma wrote: > When I write, I only want to think about the words ... > and the structure of my argument ... May I add a big Amen! -- Mike Bianchi

[groff] Brian Kernighan on the evoution of eqn, pic, grap, into troff

2018-05-04 Thread Mike Bianchi
in language design without really trying." -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

[groff] placement of const is _not_ a matter of style ...

2018-05-05 Thread Mike Bianchi
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.4.2/gcc/Typeof.html -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: [groff] placement of const is _not_ a matter of style ...

2018-05-06 Thread Mike Bianchi
here a path by which the confusions such as these can be avoided in the design and implementation of C-like language? -- Mike Bianchi

[groff] Forwarded: Re: placement of const is _not_ a matter of style ...

2018-05-06 Thread Mike Bianchi
ki/Const_(computer_programming) : : I was wrong. Those two lines _are_ identical. The example code I lifted even illustrated that. const int *ptrToConst; //identical to: int const *ptrToConst, My apologies to [groff]. ((more to come)) -- Mike Bianchi

Re: [groff] hyphen, minus sign and hyphen-minus

2018-05-28 Thread Mike Bianchi
switches in postscript output via man -Tps: > > man -Tps groff | sed 's:/minus:/hyphen:g' > groff.ps >: Hummm ... How about a character named asciiminusU+002D ? -- Mike Bianchi

Re: [groff] Spooky action at a distance in line adjustment...sometimes

2018-06-26 Thread Mike Bianchi
rnal_name] [-i n] [-o output_file] afm_file > > map_file > > +font_name > > : > : -- Mike Bianchi

Re: [groff] Groff & tbl as a report generator

2018-07-25 Thread Mike Bianchi
appearance quickly realized the value of separating the those two concerns. The prevalence of What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get documentation ("... Is All You Get": Brian Kernighan) has hidden the possibilities from the popular mind. It is good to see the idea of computing documents being rediscovered. -- Mike Bianchi

Re: [groff] How to show all hyphenation points?

2018-11-09 Thread Mike Bianchi
could add a "Tricks and Techniques" section that would collect gems such as this one. or maybe add this trick to www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/html_node/Manipulating-Hyphenation.html It, and many like it, deserve a better fate than &qu

Re: [groff] Release Candidate 1.22.4.rc3

2018-11-29 Thread Mike Bianchi
d a footnote reference to "Edition 1.22.4". That way this could become a living document! A perpetual current resource! -- Mike Bianchi

Re: [groff] mom manpage

2018-11-30 Thread Mike Bianchi
be useful. Mom macros > really need the documentation that's in the html/pdf docs. It's > enough for the manpage to give the entry points, IMO. > > Since groff_mom(7) isn't actually my baby, I'm asking for opinions > before I go ahead. > > -- > Peter Schaffter > http://www.schaffter.ca -- Mike Bianchi

[groff] Design and Implementation of *roff

2018-11-30 Thread Mike Bianchi
). I don't recall any place where this was all written down in an orderly fashion, though it's interesting and maybe some enthusiast could take it on. Maybe Doug McIlroy remembers -- he did a roff-like program, as did I, and several others. Brian --

Re: [groff] mom manpage

2018-12-06 Thread Mike Bianchi
a credit. The same for ed . -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

[groff] ... the point of ascii ...

2019-02-01 Thread Mike Bianchi
be changed via a personalized configuration file. Say .groff-Ttxt.rc . Just don't go changing the definition of existing groff options such that what was rendered yesterday is different to what rendered today. -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.Aut

[groff] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote

2019-02-02 Thread Mike Bianchi
rogrammers had their favorites; document writers theirs. -- Mike Bianchi

[groff] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote

2019-02-02 Thread Mike Bianchi
have the technology. www.nkkswitches.com/nkk-smartswitch-lcd-36-x-24-pushbutton-display-enhanced-accommodate-low-voltage/ Certainly an extension keypad of programmable glyph keys would be doable!) -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: [groff] [patch] modernize -T ascii rendering of opening single quote

2019-02-21 Thread Mike Bianchi
(unshift ") with straight and angled glyphs. Once again, is anyone working on a UTF-8/Unicode keyboard? I see a need coming. -- Mike Bianchi

Re: [groff] anyone seen ".ny0" ?

2019-03-24 Thread Mike Bianchi
t; > .SH NAME > > . > > I could not find this in the groff manual. It seems to do nothing. > Any ideas ? > > re, > wh > -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: [groff] A poor mans Excel

2019-10-10 Thread Mike Bianchi
tranported from one > table line to a later one or even to another table. > > Code size: 130 lines of perl > > Limitations: Multiline table enties are not supported. > > If there is interest, I'll post the script and an example. > > Kind regards, > > ulrich lauther > -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Jean Louis wrote on Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 11:12:51AM +0530:

2019-10-28 Thread Mike Bianchi
any languages where they exist. As to groff, et. al., they are stable enough that any translations would remain useful, especially for those approaching them for the first time. -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

[groff] Re: Space After A Heading with groff -mm

2019-12-22 Thread Mike Bianchi
he two. > > Before I go fishing for the problem, has anybody else experienced this and > have a fix? > > Thanks - Damian > > Pacific Engineering Systems International, 277-279 Broadway, Glebe NSW 2037 > Ph:+61-2-8571-0847 .. Fx:+61-2-9692-9623 | unsolicited email not wanted he

Re: GNUism in groff tests, was: pic anomalies

2020-01-03 Thread Mike Bianchi
at C would be greatly improved if it just added: Strings as first-class objects (instead of a collection of array side effects) Hardened memory management Hardened pointer management -- Mike Bianchi

[groff] An alternative to info(1) ?

2020-02-17 Thread Mike Bianchi
h a different terminal interface. Or a dialog interface. So my question is does any have experience with a terminal walk-the-decision-tree interface they like? Could it serve as a model for info2 ? -- Mike Bianchi

Re: amusing bug

2020-03-17 Thread Mike Bianchi
I nominate Brian Kernighan. Mike Bianchi On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 12:30:21PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Doug McIlroy : > > Please excuse my antediluvian hangover. > > *snort* > > If I had to make a list of the

Re: amusing bug

2020-03-17 Thread Mike Bianchi
y ship. See https://youtu.be/6v6wdK2EbIQ?t=298 -- Mike Bianchi

Re: weird \s

2020-03-31 Thread Mike Bianchi
n into trouble, but it would have been a more easily understood > trouble. > > What do folks think? > > Regards, > Branden -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: weird \s

2020-03-31 Thread Mike Bianchi
occasionally, see. I think UTF-8 encoding may be such. -- Mike Bianchi

Re: weird \s

2020-04-02 Thread Mike Bianchi
Bjarni, Nice, tight analysis and proposed solutions. Thank you. Mike Bianchi On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 11:58:01PM +, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: snip > 1) The missing part is information. > Solution: > a)

Re: * RL * code review and strategy for macros set?

2020-08-12 Thread Mike Bianchi
Bench was happening and in one of the first groups to do our PL/I code development on a UNIX PWB machine that took the place of a card puncher, punch card reader and printer. Said another way, it was a work environment making use of a new Bell Labs innovation. It led into a career. > �: The New Hacker's Dictionary definition of RL is "Real life" >(http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/R/RL.html) -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: * RL * code review and strategy for macros set?

2020-08-13 Thread Mike Bianchi
c that starts with > something like `mso mm`. That is the equivalent. In the UNIX/Linux world there are many correct solutions. Enjoy the journey! -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: Learning troff - where to start?

2020-10-14 Thread Mike Bianchi
ed. Isn't > it sad that nothing more modern is available? > > Greg > -- > Sent from my desktop computer. > Finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key. > See complete headers for address and phone numbers. > This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail pro

Re: UTP Revisited: scoping the project

2020-10-20 Thread Mike Bianchi
at about “upstart" scripting languages such as Perl or Python? > > OK, that’s all I have, and I’m up way past bedtime. Does anyone else have > ideas about > what should be in an updated UTP? > > — Larry > > --- > *This implies updating the macros to work

Re: UTP Revisited: scoping the project

2020-10-20 Thread Mike Bianchi
hat you wrote your first tutorial > for using the antecedents of groff more than half your lifetime ago! OK! Everyone line up in the order of their first exposure to *roff. Mr McIlroy all the way on the right ... -- Mike Bianchi

Re: [groff] 03/06: roff(7): Develop History section a bit more.

2020-10-26 Thread Mike Bianchi
Doug McIlroy. tx Michael Lesk -- Mike Bianchi

Re: [DRAFT] Revised groff ms manual for review

2020-11-11 Thread Mike Bianchi
ldn’t matter much. My college roommate sent me a book he wrote > in -mm, back in the 80s, and I got Groff to format it by adding “\&” to > the beginning (he had a custom cover). The same should apply to -ms > documents. > > If we want to support data archaeologists, maybe we should write a > separate document for them. :D > > — Larry -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: Long text in tbl won't wrap, maybe related to mom

2021-02-05 Thread Mike Bianchi
> > This is a minimal version of the last example from the tbl document that > reproduces the funny behavior. It breaks the line as in the source, but the > table grows beyond the page and doesn't stay as nice as seen e.g. on the troff > FAQ or when using groff -Tpdf -t -ms. Am

Re: problem with mm macros

2021-02-25 Thread Mike Bianchi
so it is maybe a bug in > > groff? Also both heirloom and neatroff show name and tile in bold, > > whereas groff only shows the name an does not do so in bold. > > > > Maybe someone with more experience in roff can explain what goes wrong. > > > > Sincerly, > > > > Andreas Eder > > > > > > > > > > -- > Robert Goulding > Director, John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values; > Director, Program in History and Philosophy of Science; > Assoc. Professor, Program of Liberal Studies, > Fellow, Medieval Institute, > University of Notre Dame. -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

[groff] Re: Modernising UNIX manpages.

2021-04-21 Thread Mike Bianchi
OC once the requirements > have been set. > > Has this already been studied? Would this be an initiative you > would support? > > Best regards, > JM Marcastel > -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: Introducing mu, my new macro package

2021-07-01 Thread Mike Bianchi
gisters or strings! > > For an example of an advanced document written with mu, see > http://git.ankarstrom.se/mu/plain/README.pdf. > > I hope you find it interesting and perhaps even useful. Feel free to > write any questions or feedback. > > Best regards > John -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: Introducing mu, my new macro package

2021-07-01 Thread Mike Bianchi
uilt-in troff macros are two letters (or more). So > if you see a one-letter macro, it's definitely a macro and not a > standard troff request. -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

[Groff] Test of connectivity ...

2008-08-14 Thread Mike Bianchi
My ability to send e-mail to groff@gnu.org was broken. It should now be fixed. -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 call to arrange Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: [Groff] Is this a bug?

2008-08-20 Thread Mike Bianchi
d everything works. > > Is this what I should expect? > > Clarke Yes, it is what you should expect. The \f2 and \^ are processed before the argument is passed to H3 . You could place the \& in front of the \\$1 inside the macro so you don't have to remember about the

Re: [Groff] comments in non-fill mode

2008-09-03 Thread Mike Bianchi
llowing ... \" Beginning of a comment. Everything up to the end of the line is ignored. \# Everything up to and including the next newline is ignored. This is interpreted in copy mode. This is like \" except that the t

Re: [Groff] Changing font in ".FG"

2008-09-06 Thread Mike Bianchi
n groff(7) . It shouldn't take both .fp and .ftr to make the change but looking into the /usr/share/groff/1.18.1/tmac/m.tmac , I find that there both references to fonts by position and by hard-coded R I B names. I'll take on the task of rationalizing that someday soon. -

Re: [Groff] Changing font in ".FG"

2008-09-06 Thread Mike Bianchi
. Werner, I'm new to all this. What's the procedure for getting the latest-and-greatest out to the distributions? Mike Bianchi - Forwarded message from Mike Bianchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 10:29:04 -0400 Fro

[Groff] Suggestions on how to trace this out ...

2008-09-09 Thread Mike Bianchi
k is from about the year 2000, so ... I've not detected any obvious pattern, and am wondering how to proceed. Suggestions? -- Mike Bianchi

Re: [Groff] tbl is not flexible to adjust itself according to page layout

2008-09-14 Thread Mike Bianchi
You don't have to wait for a change to the big tool, you can accomplish the same thing on your own right now (if you know enough shell script tricks). But I, too, find the newline T} tab T{ newline mechanism cumbersome and would welcome an alternative. Let's all go get a beer and dis

Re: [Groff] search order of tmac directories

2008-10-03 Thread Mike Bianchi
t seems logical. Are there a definitions for site-dependent directory local directory ? -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 call to arrange Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: [Groff] groff -mm output something I don't expect

2008-11-14 Thread Mike Bianchi
hose bars indicate the > left and right side of the paper, similar to the flashing lines in gv? Is it possible the "two short bars" are the - 1 - (meaning page 1) that mm places as the Page Header? -- Mike Bianchi

Re: [Groff] Problem with -me package

2009-02-08 Thread Mike Bianchi
line break and setting the page length to the _current_ page length. .br .pl \\n[nl]u -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 call to arrange Fax mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: [Groff] Creating Word/rtf output

2009-03-03 Thread Mike Bianchi
proofs for weeks. > > Maybe try troffcvt > http://www.snake.net/software/troffcvt/ Wow! ... and troffcvt is a standard Ubunutu offering. -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 call to arrange Fax mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: [Groff] changing .em behaviour?

2009-04-21 Thread Mike Bianchi
be a feature; instead of fixing it > they just documented it. > > 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 > `

Re: Re: [Groff] changing .em behaviour?

2009-04-22 Thread Mike Bianchi
tible mode, and that fact will be documented, is good enough for me. Mike Bianchi On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:48:50PM +0100, Denis M. Wilson wrote: > I think we have to be cautious about changing the behaviour > of requests. We do not know whe

Re: [Groff] groff mm problems

2009-04-25 Thread Mike Bianchi
/mm.tmac Thanks. Mike Bianchi DOn Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 07:33:27AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Please help this guy. > Werner > > == > > I am now trying

Re: [Groff] groff mm problems

2009-04-26 Thread Mike Bianchi
> Cathode: Hydrogen release > .LI > Anode: Anodic Oxide > .LI > Voltage limited thickness > .LI > Wavelength of light > .LE > .LI > Interference of white light > .AL a > .LI > Double reflection, constructive interference > .LI > Oxide thickness, 1/2 wavelen

Re: [Groff] option to set output file name

2009-04-29 Thread Mike Bianchi
ould avoid this by manually > forking and setting up file descriptor 0 to be writing to foo.ps before > execing groff but it's hassle and system() is just easier. > > An option shouldn't be added to groff to do this. By that logic, awk, > sed, make, date, and wc should all grow an --output option too. > > Cheers, > > Ralph. -- Mike Bianchi

Re: [Groff] Handling '...'

2009-06-22 Thread Mike Bianchi
ts that the typography for a particular meaning be different, the correction is both easy and localized to just those places that should be affected. -- Mike Bianchi

Re: [Groff] Arithmetic in groff

2009-10-21 Thread Mike Bianchi
Joachim, 10^2 Thanks! I made one _little_ change. I always name my macros, etc. starting with a Capital Letter, so as to keep them distinct from the standard offerings. Mike Bianchi On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:41:39PM +0200, Joachim

Re: Re: [Groff] gro html problem

2009-12-10 Thread Mike Bianchi
Chuck Robey: Please send a specific example, including the commmand lines you use. I'll take a look. Mike Bianchi On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:05:35PM -0500, Larry Kollar wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: > >> I was told this is

Re: [Groff] grohtml

2009-12-27 Thread Mike Bianchi
the output from groff --version output from uname -a I will take a look and let you know what I find. Mike Bianchi On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 09:43:52PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > I'm a very long-term user

Re: [Groff] Another hdtbl patch

2010-02-03 Thread Mike Bianchi
se > macros, to prevent conflicts. Whatever we agree on could go in the > texinfo document. Yes, please. I would very much like that conversation. I'm willing to transform the mm macros to whatever we agree upon. -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 call to arrange Fa

Re: [Groff] Another hdtbl patch

2010-02-03 Thread Mike Bianchi
egister, or string name within standard macro packages will ever end in * . Thus all user created names that end in * will never collide with any within the standard macro packages. E.g. .de MAHM* .nr pi* .ds address* -- Mike Bianchi

[Groff] names in groff -- was: Another hdtbl patch

2010-02-05 Thread Mike Bianchi
: .. .Glurp \" uses .Mine.Glurp , \"" unless ._.Glurp is defined. ..namespace Mine\" end Mine . .Mine.Glurp \" still defined. This is just a sketch, and

Re: [SPAM] RE: [Groff] Extending .tm to allow for file handles

2010-02-18 Thread Mike Bianchi
also am most appreciative. -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 call to arrange Fax mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: [Groff] preserve ascii escape characters from input

2010-02-27 Thread Mike Bianchi
and ls, grep, colordiff and git all hard-code ANSI. My dstat(1) on Ubunutu 8.04 Linux puts out color escapes when the it talks to a terminal, but is mono-chrome when invoked in a pipe line or into a file. dstat | cat - dstat >dstat.out Similarly for ls --color=auto .

Re: [Groff] Questions about the MM macro package

2010-04-23 Thread Mike Bianchi
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 07:16:13PM +0400, Anton Shepelev wrote: > Mike Bianchi: > > > I am a day-to-day MM user (since the 1970s) so I should be able to help > > you. Please provide stripped down examples that demonstrate your concerns > > and I'll look at them

Re: [Groff] Questions about the MM macro package

2010-04-24 Thread Mike Bianchi
horrible and fearful 12 margin ‐‐ the bottom 13 margin of the page, 14 beyond which unknown 15 things await us. Let us 16 close the list. 17 18 List closed. 19 -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 call to arrange Fax mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: [Groff] Headers in MM

2010-04-28 Thread Mike Bianchi
tion is > ideologically correct and whether it won't produce > undesirable side effects. > > Thank you in advance, > Anton -- Mike Bianchi Foveal Systems 973 822-2085 call to arrange Fax mbian...@foveal.com http://www.AutoAuditorium.com http://www.FovealMounts.com

Re: [Groff] Groff 1.19.2 and 1.20.1 differences

2010-05-04 Thread Mike Bianchi
correct? > > > Werner I will be happy to look at the mm issues in detail, since I depend on it. I have the background in n/t/groff to figure out the why of what is happening, given enough time. But I am up to my eyeballs until late May, and maybe beyond. I'll look at it then.

Re: [Groff] Hanging paragraphs in MM

2010-06-01 Thread Mike Bianchi
.MyMacro FirstArg \ All the text that is processed by MyMacro FirstArg follows and \ in the case of a lot of text \ multiple lines. -- Mike Bianchi

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