I've opened savannah ticket http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62814 to
capture the highlights of this discussion and a couple of possible
paths forward.
On Mon Jul 25, 2022 at 6:58 PM EDT, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> My solution was to write a macro set so clearly
> documented that users would never have to consult the g/troff
> documentation at all unless they were themselves macro programmers.
I’m seriously considering making another macro set on t
On Sun, Jul 24, 2022, DJ Chase wrote:
> ...I learned *roff through Unix For People,[1] then various online
> materials maybe half a year ago. The turn-off for me was how
> cryptic all of the troff examples (from any source) I saw were,
> and how it felt like I was always fighting the typesetter to
* Alejandro Colomar , 2022-07-24, 21:19:
+.B "#define NULL ((void *) 0)"
+.fi
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B NULL
+represents a null pointer constant.
+.PP
+According to POSIX,
+it shall expand to an integer constant expression with the value
+.B 0
+cast to type
+.IR "void *" .
Might be worth noting tha
Hi Alejandro,
Alejandro Colomar wrote on Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 09:19:32PM +0200:
> - Move to man3const [Ralph, Branden]
> - Added LIBRARY section
> - Added #include [Ralph]
> - Note that it can also be used as a function pointer [Ralph]
> - Document that 0 is another null pointer constant [Ralph]
On 7/25/22, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> I'm out of my comfort zone here; expertise from PS/PDF gurus is welcome.
I'm hardly a guru in this realm, but I did have to untangle this
problem once, so I have some relevant knowledge.
I've found giving ps2pdf the "-dPDFSETTINGS=/printer" flag does the
On Mon Jul 25, 2022 at 11:20 AM EDT, Deri wrote:
> On Monday, 25 July 2022 16:04:36 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Yes, I could hack up my script to generate PDF directly with groff, but
> > for now I would rather convert from PostScript. Is there a way to get
> > ps2pdf to honor this flag?
>
On Monday, 25 July 2022 16:04:36 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Yes, I could hack up my script to generate PDF directly with groff, but
> for now I would rather convert from PostScript. Is there a way to get
> ps2pdf to honor this flag?
>
> I'm out of my comfort zone here; expertise from PS/PDF
Hi DJ,
At 2022-07-25T01:40:28+, DJ Chase wrote:
> My only critique is that you may want to embed the fonts when
> distributing to prevent missing character issues.
Hmm, passing "-dEmbedAllFonts=true" to ps2pdf did not change the file
sizes at all. Checking with pdffonts(1), only the Symbol f
At 2022-07-25T01:40:28+, DJ Chase wrote:
> On Sun Jul 24, 2022 at 12:11 PM EDT, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Apropos of our conversation, I recommend the 'ms.2022-07-24.pdf'
> > document, and 'groff.2022-07-24.pdf', specifically the beginning of
> > chapter 5, "gtroff Reference".
>
> I’ve re
Hi, Nate!
At 2022-07-25T08:39:54-0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> Sometimes I scan a document and enter proof reading mode.
That happens to me all the time!
>I submit this small patch to remove a misplaced 'the':
>
> 8<---
>
> $ diff -u ms-1.ms ms-ed
Hi Branden.
Sometimes I scan a document and enter proof reading mode. I submit this
small patch to remove a misplaced 'the':
8<---
$ diff -u ms-1.ms ms-edited.ms
--- ms-1.ms 2022-07-24 12:58:02.997175471 -0500
+++ ms-edited.ms2022-07-
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