Re: [Groff] The quest for a high-end typesetting system: A few questions

es, the "moved" footnote is separated from the footnotes proper to the page it's moved to by whitespace. This visually resolves any confusion that might occur when, say, the footnotes contain two entries that are both marked by a star (the usual "first" footnote ma

Re: [Groff] The quest for a high-end typesetting system: A fewquestions

ated" strategy is perfect. Unless or until groff has a "paragraph" algorithm, I believe that the avoidance of widows/orphans, in quality typesetting, should be under the manual control of the user. I'm not sure what the state of the .wdc request is (i.e. if it's been fully tested and is stable). If anyone has experience with it, could they let me know? -- Peter Schaffter Author of _The Schumann Proof_ (RendezVous Press, Canada) http://www.golden.net/~ptpi/theschumannproof.html ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

Re: [Groff] The quest for a high-end typesetting system: A fewquestions

d read your old post, and was wondering if it still applied. Seems it does. -- Peter Schaffter Author of _The Schumann Proof_ (RendezVous Press, Canada) http://www.golden.net/~ptpi/theschumannproof.html ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

Re: [Groff] mom: Some follow-up questions

the list. Which brings me to a question: is anyone on the list interested in working with me on expanding mom? So far, it's been a one-man-band project, but I don't have the luxury of developing that way any more. -- Peter Schaffter Author of _The Schumann Proof_ (RendezVous Press,

Re: [Groff] mom: Some follow-up questions

olutions and extensions > in and to mom. I have a long "typographer's wishlist" where I've written > down things & ideas emanating from the annoyance of working with > QuarkXPress, InDesign and Framemaker. Maybe you'd like to contact me offlist

Re: [Groff] mom: Some follow-up questions

On Sat, Mar 12, 2005, Jon Snader wrote: > I do have cross reference macros that I use for my books. > Peter, if you'd like to include them in mom or use them as a > starting point, you're more than welcome--just let me know. Please, pass them along. -- Peter Schaffter Auth

Re: [Groff] mom and refer

dd floats and keeps as well. And I still have to look at implementing Werner's margin notes macro in a way that's consistent with mom. -- Peter Schaffter Author of _The Schumann Proof_ (RendezVous Press, Canada) http://www.golden.net/~ptpi/theschumannproof.html

Re: [Groff] developers only?

workable approach to a problem exists? No, it implies you guys watch The Psychic Hotline together. :) If one fact in the universe is true, it's that in groff, there are always many workable approaches to a problem. -- Peter Schaffter Author of _The Schumann Proof_ (RendezV

[Groff] Spam from list member addresses

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Re: [Groff] Spam from list member addresses

the precise nature of the spoofed addresses (just a few groff list members), the only theory I can come up with is that someone is, or has, manually scanned the list and chooses victims from it. -- Peter Schaffter Author of _The Schumann Proof_ (RendezVous Press, Canada) http://www.golden.n

[Groff] refer question

quot; variety). I think that covers the main places refer would be used in a document. Can anyone think of a use I've missed? -- Peter Schaffter Author of _The Schumann Proof_ (RendezVous Press, Canada) http://www.golden.net/~ptpi/theschumannproof.html ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

Re: [Groff] refer question

On Fri, Apr 01, 2005, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:22:08PM -0500, Peter Schaffter wrote: > > Blow, Joe, and John Doe > > ^ > > > > By default, refer produces > > > > Blow, Joe and John Doe > > > &

Re: [Groff] refer question

I have some quibbles with it, as I do with other styles, but as a "general" style, it's by far the one I prefer. -- Peter Schaffter Author of _The Schumann Proof_ (RendezVous Press, Canada) http://www.golden.net/~ptpi/theschumannproof.html ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

Re: [Groff] refer question

e, I'm surprised at how flexible it actually is. Not "flexible and fast," just flexible. There's a lot of painstaking work involved. Still, I'm not unhappy with it in this regard. Yet. -- Peter Schaffter Author of _The Schumann Proof_ (RendezVous Press, Canada) http:

Re: [Groff] refer question

On Sat, Apr 02, 2005, Jorgen Grahn wrote: > On Fri Apr 1 23:42:51 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 01-Apr-05 Peter Schaffter wrote: > ... > > > > > > In contemporary North American bibliographies, about five > > > styles are "stan

Re: [Groff] List labels in mom

dition of a pre-fix string to complement > the supplied suffix-string associated to list labels. For example, mom > allows: > > 1) > 2) > etc. > > but doesn't allow: > > (1) > (2) > etc. This shouldn't be too difficult t

Re: [Groff] refer question

the variable holding the > database string (well, what is it's name? :-) ) .R1 no-default-database database a_different_database .R2 instructs refer not to search the default database. If later you need to have refer include the default database again: .R1 default-database .R2 I think that

[Groff] mom homepage has moved

I hope to make the new release by the end of the week. -- Peter Schaffter Author of _The Schumann Proof_ (RendezVous Press, Canada) http://faustus.dyn.ca ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

Re: [Groff] mom and footnote marks

use of footnotes, you might consider creating macros in your text editor that insert them into the text. And since I am just now in the midst of revising the documentation section on footnotes, I will add instructions concerning the problem. Good timing! Cheers. -- Peter Schaffter Author of _

Re: [Groff] mom and footnote marks

gt; used to use it all the time in manual pages for the HP-UX > Reference manual in 1989-1992 when that was my job at HP. No, this doesn't work with mom's footnotes routines. -- Peter Schaffter Author of _The Schumann Proof_ (RendezVous Press, Can

[Groff] [mom]: footnote markers and punctuation

I'll be sending Werner mega patches for a version 1.3 release of mom before Monday next, which will include this change (duly noted in the documentation). -- Peter Schaffter Author of _The Schumann Proof_ (RendezVous Press, Canada) http://faustus.dyn.ca _

[Groff] mom version 1.3 released

nce not being able to set up complete list structures all in one shot presents the user with a minor (and, one hopes, infrequent) inconvenience, rather than a major stumbling block, I believe I can let this one go for now. -- Peter Schaffter Author of _The Schumann Proof_ (RendezVous Press,

[Groff] Spam apparently from list -- again

.gnu.org/pipermail/groff> List-Post: <mailto:groff@gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===End spam he

Re: [Groff] Minor mom Makefile patch

hings like > $(notdir ...) in there; I assume that's a Gnu make-specific feature. > > BR, > Jörgen > > PS. I deliberately did not send this to mom's author, since it affects > groff's install process in general, not mom's features. Good thing, too, since this i

Re: [Groff] mom macros (display) problem

bit long in the tooth. You might want to consider updating to a more recent version. -- Peter Schaffter Author of _The Schumann Proof_ (RendezVous Press, Canada) http://faustus.dyn.ca ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

Re: [Groff] testing for a font in a macro

available. > > I am happy to ignore the error, but ideally would like to substitute R > if CR is not available. Recent versions of groff include .if F which tests for the existence of a font. Is that what you're looking for? -- Peter Schaffter Author of _The Schumann

Re: [Groff] Introduction

t; > keep going back to vi, (or (g)vim), for personal choice. > > > > > > > In the end, there can be only one. > > Christophe Lambert or Adrian Paul? Adrian Paul. At least he can act. And for me, (el)vi(s) is still the King. -- Peter Schaffter Author

Re: [Groff] Re: begin page blues

". Conversely, I've noticed that it's people in their forties and fifties, accustomed to word processing, who think the whole text processing philosophy and implementation isn't sufficiently cool for their tastes. As I said, just my two-cents worth. -- Peter Schaffter Autho

Re: [Groff] Both Headers AND Footers with Mom Macros

nter . FOOTER_RIGHT "Footer Right .\"***Add any footer style changes above this comment line.*** .. ---End recipe for getting both headers and footers--- I'm interested to know how you intend to use the combo of headers and footers. If your situation is a common one, I may macro-

Re: [Groff] groff build hangs

evision 1.43 retrieving revision 1.44 diff -c -u -r1.43 -r1.44 --- BUGS15 Mar 2006 23:32:06 - 1.43 +++ BUGS27 Mar 2006 23:22:11 - 1.44 @@ -18,6 +18,15 @@ --Peter Schaffter +Version 1.3-e +=

Re: [Groff] PDF printing coming

and I'd like to be able to attribute it properly. -- Peter Schaffter Author of _The Schumann Proof_ (RendezVous Press, Canada) http://faustus.dyn.ca ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

Re: [Groff] Hey, our headman is in the news!

ff *ever* incorporate shrinkable vertical, and, much more important, horizontal space? All other concerns aside, the only quibble I've ever had with groff as a typesetting engine is that, as Werner reminds us, groff's paragraph formatting algorithm isn'

[Groff] mom fix

upgrading. -- Peter Schaffter ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

Re: [Groff] Sun's troff now available

e decades ago. > .lhang/.rhang > > Hanging characters at the left and right margin, respectively. This would be wonderful. -- Peter Schaffter ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

Re: [Groff] Sun's troff now available

roublesome lines, how much kerning to apply, etc. during the first run. I'm wondering if this is the kind of "pre-output access" you're envisaging. Hard to imagine how groff could implement it in user-space, nice though it would be. Seems to me it would require a specialized fron

Re: [Groff] Sun's troff now available

ng at the end of every line rather than having to be set. If such a "trap" existed, macro writers could attack the problem of letter-and word-spacing themselves. This has many advantages over trying to implement code in groff to do the same thing, methinks. Wonder if it's doable? -- Peter Schaffter ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

[Groff] New homepage for the mom macros project

Hi, all. My DDNS provider crapped out, with the result that the mom macros homepage vanished from the Web late last week. I've signed up with another provider (dynds), so the mom homepage can now be found at http://faustus.homelinux.org/mom/mom.html -- Peter Scha

[Groff] Rules drawn with \D are rounded

tional behind groff's drawing rounded caps on rules, and rounded corners on unfilled polygons? 2. Can this behaviour be changed in user space? 3. Could this behaviour be changed in the applicable groff binaries themselves? Thanks. -- Peter Schaffter

Re: [Groff] Rules drawn with \D are rounded

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006, Ted Harding wrote: > On 09-Jul-06 Peter Schaffter wrote: > > 1. What is the rational behind groff's drawing rounded caps on > > rules, and rounded corners on unfilled polygons? > > I don't know but I set out some considerations below.

Re: [Groff] groff on GNU

re coming to groff for the first time via the mom macros is: "I didn't know groff could typeset. I thought it was just for manpages." -- Peter Schaffter ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

Re: [Groff] Rules drawn with \D are rounded

nsure that each new page doesn't require setting them again. (I'm a bit surprised that the prologue file sets linecap and friends in BP. To my way of thinking, these decisions, once made, are likely to be expected to carry throughout a document.) -- Peter Schaffter __

Re: [Groff] Rules drawn with \D are rounded

On Sun, Jul 16, 2006, jon arbuckle wrote: > On 9th July 2006, Peter Schaffter wrote: > > >I've been contemplating adding some macros to the mom set to > >ease the creation of simple graphical objects: rules, boxes and > >elipses/circles ("ease" meaning

Re: [Groff] Re: unicode support, part 14: unicode fonts

t that pressing a concern. Debian's overall policy of caution strikes me as a good one. -- Peter Schaffter ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

Re: [Groff] RE: MOM - GROFF AND CSS

the use of .MCO and .MCX (which mean the same thing as CG's and ). > I wanted to know if I can use MOM along with CSS. I > need to use CSS but it now good enough for complex > work. Please explain what you mean by using mom along with CSS. -- Peter Schaffter ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

Re: [Groff] RE: Simplifying groff documentation

uld have an ally ... ! And quite possibly another. :) Although, ironically, I have to say I use groff's TeXinfo docs far more than its manpages. I believe that's a tribute to Werner and how he's set them up more, though, rather than an endorsement of TeXinfo itself. -- Peter Schaffter ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

[Groff] Mom/Mac OSX strangeness

l times, so maybe someone with an eagle eye can have a look at that macro in particular. The definition starts at line 3055 of the most recent version of mom in the repository.) -- Peter Schaffter ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

Re: [Groff] Mom/Mac OSX strangeness

#x27;s *really* stuck, or isn't confident enough to replace his groff with a > compiled version, I think I have a 1.19.1 .pkg that I built laying around > somewhere. Cool. Thanks for the info. I'll communicate with the user and see how comfortable he is with bu

Re: Footer trap in a A4 PDF

ler. I use it frequently. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Baffling accented glyphs issue

s the problem with the initial mangled glyph. Try adding .\"ô or similar to the end of chats_1 and processing it to see what I mean. I'm not sure if this is new behaviour because I can't recall ever creating a document with only one accented glyph. Ideas, anyone? -- Peter Schaff

Re: Baffling accented glyphs issue

dd to be discovering this for the first time after decades of preparing documents. Live and learn. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: Long Heading lines using mom

es in mom. For very long titles there's TITLE_SHORT, but nothing equivalent for headings. I'm working on a solution. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Leaders

and some leader. Question 3: Why do the leaders not respect .ta \n[.l]u? -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: Leaders

quot; is justification for adopting an "it doesn't matter" attitude, at least not in this case. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: Leaders

Branden -- On Sat, Sep 02, 2023, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Question 1: > > Is \a only interpreted in copy mode as this would suggest? > > Yes. This has been documented for a long time, but I don't think very > clearly. Precisely why I asked. :) > Until (he boasted) groff 1.23.0. > ... >

Re: Leaders

got it now. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: Leaders

y > possibly required additional space. See the attached example. The example was enormously helpful. There's light at the end of my TOC multi-line entry tunnel. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: Long Heading lines using mom

Heinz-Jürgen -- On Tue, Aug 29, 2023, Peter Schaffter wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2023, Heinz-Jürgen Oertel wrote: > > I'm translating from English to German so I have to overtake more > > ore less the long heading lines from a book. Using mom i can > > split the tex

Re: [MOM[ unexpected behaviour when using blockquotes with two columns

arball of the fixed version (2.6_a) from the mom website: https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/mom-05.html#most-recent-release -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: [MOM[ unexpected behaviour when using blockquotes with two columns

w to update, that's all. > 2. In groff_mom there's a link to the local html manual (/usr/share/doc/ > groff-1.23.0/html/mom/toc.html), but most recent version of Groff on Arch > Linux > doesn't include the html pages, at least not where the points to. Branden? Anyone? -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: Long Heading lines using mom

to say. If you are using 2.6 or 2.6_a and the problem persists, please send me a file exhibiting the error. Occasionally, when testing mom, I inadvertently set up conditions that give perfect results but which overlook some real world scenarios. Cheers. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: Proposed GNU troff behavior change: require end-of-input macros to exit

On Fri, Dec 08, 2023, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I propose that GNU troff stop behaving like AT&T troff in one aspect of > end-of-input macro processing, documented in our Texinfo manual. I'm all for it, for all the reasons given. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: Is there a Groff showcase?

columns with cutouts for images. However, floating justified text around an image is a whole 'nother ball of wax. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Auto-relocated TOC in wrong place in pdf outlines

or if it's a gropdf bug. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca .TITLE "PDF outline test .COVER TITLE AUTHOR .AUTHOR "Peter Schaffter .PRINTSTYLE TYPESET .AUTO_RELOCATE_TOC .START .PP 1 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed at ante. Mauris eleifend, q

Re: Ornamented Page Borders

]<=\n[loop] \{\ . TN \" Call remaining tabs with "tab next" to keep on same baseline . nop \*[glyph] .\} .TQ . .\" Left .while (\n[.t]-\n[.v])>\n[.v] \{\ . nop \*[glyph] .\} . .\" Right .rt .sp .RIGHT .while (\n[.t]-\n[.v])>\n[.v] \{\ . nop \*[glyph] .\} . .\" B

Re: Tears in my eyes, joy in my heart (was: gropdf-ng merge status (was: PDF outline not capturing Cyrillic text))

oice on the list. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: [PATCH] tweak a mom diagnostic

next,a future} push? Let me take care of it. I'm planning to push a couple of changes in the next few days. I'll include it then. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: Accent mystery

f8 *and* I recently encountered a file with a single accented character where passing -Kutf8 had no effect (I had to introduce the character "silently" in an unused diversion to fix the problem). -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: RECTO_VERSO uses wrong margins

d for giving the paper size at the command line, and no need to convert .ps to .pdf. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: [mom] CAPTION_AFTER _LABEL ignores alignment rules

s. .LABELS IMG FONT R .PDF_IMAGE myimage.pdf 5c 5c \ LABEL "Label that looks like a caption." The output will have the LABEL text underneath the image, as expected (even though here it serves as a caption) and the image will appear in the List of Figures as "Label that looks like a caption." -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: Accent mystery

Hi, Branden. On Mon, Feb 19, 2024, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2024-02-19T12:39:53-0500, Peter Schaffter wrote: > > Your minimal file renders fine on my system without -Kutf8 *and* I > > recently encountered a file with a single accented character where > > passing -Kutf8

Re: Accent mystery

atively, I suppose the documentation for -K could simply be amended to read "don't use -k with -K" (though more elegantly worded) instead of "implies -k". -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: Accent mystery

> > It looks idiomatic enough to me. You can expect this change in my next > push. Thanks! Deri sent me a patch this morning. I've applied and tested it. Fixes the issue. If you want, I can push the change. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: Font Palatino

ith Palatino (URW-Palladio) in roman, italic, bold, and bold-italic. Nothing special is required to access the fonts. The single-letter identifier is P, thus .ft PR = Palatino roman .ft PI = Palatino italic etc. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: [groff] 28/28: [pdf]: Implement linear bookmark tag search

patch and send it to me. > If that is done (regardless of who does it), I can also chop out the `ie > d PRINTSTYLE` branches from pdf.tmac shown below. Which would address Doug's concern about PRINTSTYLE (mom specific macro) appearing in pdf.tmac, which should be macroset agnostic. -- P

Re: Why does groff require psutils?

ing to ps2ps imposes no penalty on the mom documentation, which explicitly instructs users to acquire and install the psutils package if it is not already on their system. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: An extremely lazy proposal

files with a mapped key in vim(1). The key invokes a script that throws -Kutf8 -e -t -p -R -s -G at groff regardless of which preprocessors are needed, if any. I've never noticed a performance penalty. The -A option might be a good idea. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: the Courier font family and nroff history

MacIIfx computers. I wouldn't call those Macs cheap or hobby-level, not by a long shot. :) -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: the Courier font family and nroff history

On Sun, Mar 24, 2024, Steve Izma wrote: > Do you remember what the costs of the Linotronic machines would > have been? IIRC, the 202 cost between $40,000 and $60,00 at the end of the eighties. The 300 series ran about $60,000. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: Enumerator spacing in bullet lists with mom

of advice: As a general rule, it is preferable to insert blank lines (visual spacers) into mom text files by putting a period (dot) at the start of the line, like so .PAPER A4 . .TITLE "Some Title" -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca list-test.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document

Re: Enumerator spacing in bullet lists with mom

ng or decreasing the size of the bullets, or, in your case, increasing the gutter between the bullet and the text. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: Incorrect list item spacing after pagebreak

m release. For now, 1. Open the file om.tmac. 2. Look for .MAC ITEM END 3. Add this line immediately underneath .if \\n[#START]+\\n[@TOP]>0 .RESTORE_SPACE -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

PDF outline anomaly

the scaling unit and closing delimiter of the \s inline being interpreted as literal text when the text of a heading with \*[COND] is passed to pdfbookmark. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: PDF outline anomaly

'll do another bisect to see where the 'u]' started creeping in, but it > looks to me like there's more than one problem to solve. I rather suspected it might be the tip of an iceberg. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: PDF outline anomaly

Branden -- Deri sent me privately an amended gropdf that fixes the issue. I missed a couple of commit messages this morning but I believe he has pushed the changes to the repo. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: Hungarumlauts in built-in fonts

t; Does this mean the problem doesn't happen for the ps device? Or > have you not tried that? Tested. The problem affects -Tps as well. The best solution is to use the urw fonts, which render fine. Should a ticket be opened on savannah for the built-in fonts? -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: vim :hardcopy equivalent

implemented switching between typewritten and typeset copy of the same document (with the PRINTSTYLE directive), a functionality I find indispensable for generating hard copies of drafts for blue penciling. My way of saying, "Don't be afraid of the t-word." Neatly formatte

Error messages I thought we got rid of

te). I haven't seen these messages for a while, so I was a bit surprised. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: Error messages I thought we got rid of

Branden -- On Wed, Aug 21, 2024, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > So please await a full answer, but in the meantime, the warnings > are restored so that it's easier for me to tell when I've fixed > what causes them. Understood. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: PDFPIC issues

which would solve > the problem of some versions of identify returning incorrect data. Makes sense for now. > You say that jpg and jp2 are "almost" correct. What is the issue? The "almost" refers only to the wrong size pdf output. jpg and jp2 are fine. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: PDFPIC issues

I can shoehorn Debian's 'experimental' imagemagick/perlmagick into my Ubuntu 22.04 and test. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: Rendering the em dash on the terminal

pace, q.v. Given the clarity and former prevalence of these conventions, I can't see any reason why documents intended for the terminal shouldn't observe them. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: PDFPIC issues

scaling, so the only change needed in mom is to the documentation, instructing users to call on pdfinfo(1) for pdf image dimensions and identify(1) for everything else. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: Rendering the em dash on the terminal

On Wed, Aug 28, 2024, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > I suspect conventions might be strongly regionally > dependent. Indeed. My bias is entirely North American. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re:

om has macros to facilitate both (plus letter-pair kerning). Not sure about the other macro packages. That said, no matter how you tighten or loosen a line, it must not be noticeable. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: drawing requests following the line

RSCORE uses \D'l ...', which does not span lines, a limitation mitigated by there being no restriction on the chosen output device. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: drawing requests following the line

Deri -- On Thu, Sep 05, 2024, Deri wrote: > Hi Peter, > > There is a way for -Tpdf, I just have not written it yet! When I do, you get > text hi-light, score through, and squiggly line as a bonus, they are all > related. Gropdf to the rescue. -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: [Groff] adding non-native font directories [Was: fontconfig]

for it. -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca

Re: [Groff] Lack of professionalism ....

ac-u in order to apply patches for special, site-specific features I send them. The alternative--me adding the features to an unstripped om.tmac, then stripping it before preparing the patch--is also a PITA. Plus, there's a reason for the comments and indenting. It's called "clarity". My two cents worth. -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca

Re: [Groff] Problem with html output

ount of work required to implement -Thtml integration would be huge. I confess I'm puzzled by the specific error reported, though. -mom uses this style to define macros .MAC macroname END ... .END rather than the conventional .de macroname ... .. Seems odd that -Th

[Groff] Busgrap

or 992,235 the size of all the labels remains at -4, and the chart changes radically: The Sun's circulation changes from 42.5% to a whopping 88.1%. Not sure what that's all about, but it certainly isn't what I expected (though no doubt Mr. Murdoch would be pleased). -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca

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