Re: [Groff] Business Graphics

I wish this had been available twenty years ago.

Re: [Groff] Groff - weird error with line spacing

When piping to gv: groff -mm oops|gv - The second page throws PostScript errors, the primary being "undefined in BP". Trying with output to a file: groff -mm oops>oops.ps Produces a properly formatted second page. groff version 1.22.2

Re: [Groff] figurate text in groff and TeX

Is there a shaping method which provides optimal spacing whilst using traps?

Re: [Groff] Help locating financial reports generated by groff

On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 11:31:58AM -, Gerard Lally wrote: > Some time ago I came across some financial or business reports which, if my > memory isn't deceiving me, were generated by groff. I vaguely recall that > Dewi James produced them. > > Am I deceiving myself? If not, I'd love to see the

Re: [Groff] sqlrpt: sqlite meets groff

On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 09:20:14PM -0500, James K. Lowden wrote: > https://github.com/jklowden/sqlrpt > > Just a little utility to render SQLite data as tbl input. Thank you very much. I now wish I could find my Perl+Postgress+Tbl billing script. > I know I'm 30 years late in observing that r

Re: [groff] How can you prevent \| from sabotaging end-of-sentence detection?

On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 06:19:56PM -0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > I'm probably overlooking something obvious here, but it's eluded me > long enough to type and send this message. > > Consider this three-line input: > > .ss 12 48 > \[lq]He said `seven.'\[rq] > John frowned. > > > What's the correct

Re: [groff] Fonts, PDF images, groff vs. heirloom troff

On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 07:02:52AM -0800, Mircea Hossu wrote: > If the text "GROFF and Friends" was initially a standalone image which > was stacked on top of another image, it seems like it's exactly the > goal. Would it be possible to share how you achieved this, i.e. how to > "wrap a bitmap in c

Re: How to run sed in a groff *.mom file?

> > How does groff understand the line starting with sed has to be executed? > > > -- > Andrea > By using one of these requests. I'm not certain if my original email was sent. .pso your_command This behaves like the so request except that input comes from the standard output

Re: First post...

On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 07:10:09PM +0100, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > this is my first post to this mailing list. > > I just started the journey into the "world of troff" - so I am > a very beginner. > > Is this mailing list the right place to post genral questions about > "how to troff" or

Re: Is there any way to make alternate rows of a table have a light gray background?

On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 04:11:58PM -0400, T. Kurt Bond wrote: > Is there any way to make alternate rows of a table have a light gray > background? Is HDTBL a viable option for your data? I was thinking of the options from man groff_hdtbl: bgc=[c] The background color of the tabl

Re: Is there any way to make alternate rows of a table have a light gray background?

On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 02:53:52PM -0400, T. Kurt Bond wrote: > I have never used hdtbl, and it looks like it can do exactly what I want. > Thank you. > > However, when I tried the following, modified from groff_hdtbl(7): > > .LP > Something goes here. > .TBL cols=3 > . TR .TD 1*1 ".TD rowspan=2"

Re: [Groff] mission statement 3

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 03:34:27AM -0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > > My feeling is that the quality of the line-breaking algorithm is something > that will be noticed by typography nerds, but the difficulty of installing > new typefaces is something that will be noticed by any groff user who > wants a

Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro

Many times I've wished for a Groff Restricted Shell. Something similar to Sendmail's smrsh. Instead of calling .sy, one could could call .grsh and utilise a site dependent, limited set of executables in a resonably safe environment.