Re: [Groff] A little Greetings card

2009-12-29 Thread Ted Harding
On 29-Dec-09 00:39:11, Werner LEMBERG wrote: The following draws a pretty picture, which I send you with all my best wishes, hoping you had a good Christmas and will have a good New Year. Nice! I wish everybody the same. A small caution: Everyone who wants to try Ted's code should strip

Re: [Groff] A little Greetings card

2009-12-29 Thread Robert Thorsby
On 29/12/09 20:15:42, ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: A small caution: Everyone who wants to try Ted's code should strip trailing whitespaces. Sorry for the trailing spaces! They were not in the original, and must have been introduced when I pasted from the source file into the email.

Re: [Groff] A little Greetings card

2009-12-29 Thread Jan-Herbert Damm
Hello Ted and all, Werner LEMBERG wrote on 29.12.09: The following draws a pretty picture, which I send you with all my best wishes, hoping you had a good Christmas and will have a good New Year. Nice! I wish everybody the same. A small caution: Everyone who wants to try Ted's code

Re: [Groff] A little Greetings card

2009-12-29 Thread Larry Kollar
Jan-Herbert Damm jan-h-d...@web.de wrote: I removed trailing whitespace saved as picture and processed simply with groff picture picture.ps it shows some text and some ellipsises, probably not what is intended. Sorry for this ignorant novice question: How do I invoke groff correctly

Re: [Groff] A little Greetings card

2009-12-29 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I removed trailing whitespace saved as picture and processed simply with groff picture picture.ps it shows some text and some ellipsises, probably not what is intended. Sorry for this ignorant novice question: How do I invoke groff correctly for this? Add the -p command line option to

Re: [Groff] A little Greetings card

2009-12-29 Thread Jan-Herbert Damm
Thanks to both of you, now i see: it *is* beautiful! Werner LEMBERG wrote on 29.12.09: BTW, the necessary command line options for groff for file `foo' can be guessed with the `grog foo' command. oh, good! it did show me the correct command. jan

Re: [Groff] A little Greetings card

2009-12-29 Thread Ted Harding
On 29-Dec-09 16:27:32, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote: Thanks to both of you, now i see: it *is* beautiful! Werner LEMBERG wrote on 29.12.09: BTW, the necessary command line options for groff for file `foo' can be guessed with the `grog foo' command. oh, good! it did show me the correct command.