Hello,
so what do you use for cross-references in troff documents under plan9?
Thanks,
Ruda
On 3 September 2010 17:16, Rudolf Sykora rudolf.syk...@gmail.com wrote:
is there a native lbl (for symbolic labels in text documents), or
do I have to grab the unix tarball and somehow compile that?
Hello,
so what do you use for cross-references in troff documents under plan9?
Thanks,
Ruda
There's two versions of refer in contrib. One version is forsyth/refer.tgz,
which is just refer, 'slightly improved,' and the other version is
steve/refer, which is refer from forsyth with bin2ref and
There's two versions of refer in contrib. One version is forsyth/refer.tgz,
which is just refer, 'slightly improved,' and the other version is
steve/refer, which is refer from forsyth with bin2ref and the plan 9
bibliography from the University of Utah. They can be installed with contrib.
I think you would have to use two passes of troff. The first pass would
generate the info you needed to define the crossref macro.
For example:
.NH 2
Middle of Paper
.LP
.tm crossref: .if $1middle see sec. \*(SN
I have the label 'crossref:' in case you are generating definitions for
several
On 10-09-16 9:41 AM, Gregory Pavelcak wrote:
I think you would have to use two passes of troff. The first pass would
generate the info you needed to define the crossref macro.
Also, take a look around troff.org. At the very least there should be a
link to Stevens' notes about typesetting the
Hello,
I have basically 3 questions:
1) is there a native lbl (for symbolic labels in text documents), or
do I have to grab the unix tarball and somehow compile that? (How?
Using APE? Never tried that before...)
2) I heard and read that the 'ms' troff macros are not suitable for
longer
2) I heard and read that the 'ms' troff macros are not suitable for
longer documents (I want to write my PhD thesis), as opposed
supposedly to the 'me' macros (which, however are not in plan9, I
believe). Can anybody give me their opinion?
i don't see the problem. i've used -ms without fuss on
2) I heard and read that the 'ms' troff macros are not
suitable for
longer documents (I want to write my PhD thesis), as
opposed
supposedly to the 'me' macros (which, however are not in
plan9, I
believe). Can anybody give me their opinion?
There should be some macro packages out there that
There should be some macro packages out there that
fit particular universities' requirements.
oh. if there were whacky requirements (i think the main one
for me was a now-obsolete requirement for 1.5 spacing) i tweaked
settings as required. it was fairly minor effort (and i don't
typically
On Sep 3, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Rudolf Sykora wrote:
3) Although eqn produces worse result than TeX, I like the way
formulae are input, and thus have used it. Sometimes I need bold
italics, which I achieve by overstriking. This isn't ideal, maybe
using a special bold italics font would be better.
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