Re: More on writing academic papers

2024-05-22 Thread Thomas Dupond via
"G. Branden Robinson" a écrit : > At 2024-05-22T09:28:46+0200, Thomas Dupond via wrote: >> Damian McGuckin a écrit : >> > Yes. We process a database to automatically generate the invoice >> > details which is then run through 'groff -mm' to provide the

Re: More on writing academic papers

2024-05-22 Thread Thomas Dupond via
Hello Bento, Damian McGuckin a écrit : > Bento, > > On Tue, 21 May 2024, Bento Borges Schirmer wrote: > >> I think I will stop reproducing templates for conferences for now. > > Wise move. I just tweak my standard template every time. > >> different template, such as that of ACM! > > Mine is

Re: Changing header/footer font in mm

2024-04-24 Thread Thomas Dupond via
"G. Branden Robinson" a écrit : > Hi Jan, > > At 2024-04-24T07:53:51+0200, Jan Eden wrote: >> On 2024-04-24 00:07, G. Branden Robinson wrote: >> > At 2024-04-21T23:52:48-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: >> > > For mm, what I would do is set up the mounting positions to replace >> > > Times with

Re: Avoid page break in tables without box option

2024-04-23 Thread Thomas Dupond via
Jan Eden a écrit : > Unfortunately, I failed to describe my requirements properly – sorry > again. My document contains multiple relatively small tables, and each > table should appear on exactly one page (i.e. should not cross page > boundaries). > > I attached sample documents and the

Re: Is there a Groff showcase?

2023-12-08 Thread Thomas Dupond via
Le 2023-12-07 à 22:35, Mike a écrit : I was thinking of a website or web page which demonstrates the extent of groff's capabilities. If there isn't anything like this, currently. Has this been considered? I have only just learned of groff. The manual is awesome (though tough reading for me in

Re: Using .[ and .] in a macro

2023-12-05 Thread Thomas Dupond via
Le 2023-12-03 à 07:47, hbezemer--- via a écrit : Dear all,I would like to create a macro along the lines of:.de CITE.[\\$2\\$1.]\\$3..Which would result in:.CITE The problem that arises is that refer sees the definition of the macro asa citation (of course).Is there an elegant way to get

Re: Multi-columns in ms, again

2023-11-22 Thread Thomas Dupond via
Le 2023-11-20 à 19:55, Oliver Corff a écrit : Dear All, Hello, in April 29, I asked whether there is a possibility to resume one-column text after a two-column text on the same page. Your answers, uni sono, said what the the manual says: returning to one-column mode will always finish the

Re: An example of a multiplication table: some unresolved questions

2023-05-30 Thread Thomas Dupond via
Dear Oliver, Le 2023-05-30 à 09:17, Oliver Corff a écrit : Dear Thomas, thank you very much indeed. Beyond your critical correction of using a genuine tab (0x09) character instead of \t, it was \c which does the trick. Furthermore, my setting of tab stops had been flawed. Using .nf is also

Re: An example of a multiplication table: some unresolved questions

2023-05-29 Thread Thomas Dupond via
Dear Oliver, Oliver Corff wrote: > Dear All, > > the attached attempt to create a multiplication table was inspired by > https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Multiplication_tables > > but I fail to do the right thing with regard to typesetting the computed > output. > > I followed the groff manual,