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commit d1d2456c3a211bbafdcff9f6eff42d08283508de
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri Nov 28 19:15:22 2025 -0600
MORE.STUFF: Make ASCII markup less grody.
Throw over ` ' pairings in favor of neutral double quotes.
Throw over '.' and 'o' as list itemizers in favor of '*' and '-'.
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MORE.STUFF | 16 ++++++++--------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/MORE.STUFF b/MORE.STUFF
index 9b978fce4..13937252d 100644
--- a/MORE.STUFF
+++ b/MORE.STUFF
@@ -113,13 +113,13 @@ The plotutils package is available at
Miscellaneous
-------------
-. Ralph Corderoy's excellent page on troff:
+* Ralph Corderoy's excellent page on troff:
www.troff.org
There are links for virtually everything related to troff.
-. Dr. Robert Hermann's groff gems are available from
+* Dr. Robert Hermann's groff gems are available from
http://www.eas.slu.edu/People/RBHerrmann/GROFF/index.html
@@ -128,14 +128,14 @@ Miscellaneous
o creating business cards
o using groff to make large format posters for presentations
-. Robert Marks's collection of useful macros and scripts is available
+* Robert Marks's collection of useful macros and scripts is available
from
http://www.agsm.edu.au/~bobm/odds+ends/scripts.html
Description:
- o `polish': Is a sed (= the Unix stream editor) script that does many
+ - "polish": Is a sed (= the Unix stream editor) script that does many
things to ASCII text. Amongst other things, it breaks lines at new
sentences, reduces upper-case acronyms by one point size, adds
diacriticals, changes simple quotes into smart quotes, and makes a
@@ -143,23 +143,23 @@ Miscellaneous
run it as a sed script file (or files) on a text file and then
compare the output file with the original.
- o `DropCaps' is a troff script which replaces the initial letters of
+ - "DropCaps" is a troff script which replaces the initial letters of
paragraphs immediately after H1 and H2 headings with drop-capitals
of specified point size, and automatically flows the text around the
new drop cap.
- o `AJM Header' is a set of troff macros used in production of the
+ - "AJM Header" is a set of troff macros used in production of the
Australian Journal of Management. They use the Memorandum Macros
(mm) of AT&T, and so should be invoked with the Unix troff -mm flag;
they should also work with the GNU troff -mm flag.
-. Thomas Baruchel <[email protected]> has developed Meta-tbl, a
+* Thomas Baruchel <[email protected]> has developed Meta-tbl, a
tbl postprocessor to manipulate table cells (like adding gray shades).
The latest version can be found at
http://perso.libertysurf.fr/baruchel/
-. gpresent, written by Bob Diertens <[email protected]>. From the
+* gpresent, written by Bob Diertens <[email protected]>. From the
README file:
gpresent is a package for making presentation with groff and
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