RE: [Groff] The quest for a high-end typesetting system: A few q

2005-03-10 Thread Ted Harding
on which the keep was first encountered, and not the page number on which it is printed. It is possible to work round things like this, but it can be subtle! Hoping this helps, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax

Re: [Groff] developers only?

2005-03-30 Thread Ted Harding
On 29-Mar-05 Ted Harding wrote: On 29-Mar-05 Otavio Exel wrote: [...] I'm using -me and groff 1.17.2 (debian stable); I'll make a suggestion. This uses the 'ms' macros (which I'm more familiar with than 'me' so I know what I'm doing!). [...] Now that I've had a detailed look at the 'me

RE: [Groff] Using pic/groff/gs to produce gif/jpeg

2005-05-11 Thread Ted Harding
is better, as well as being more flexible (e.g. you can use it to cut out just the part of the page you want as a separate image file). Hoping this helps, Ted. The disadva E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0

Re: OK [Groff] serious pdfroff problems

2005-06-16 Thread Ted Harding
/sh - /bin/someshell, but I think that the possible differences of behaviour need to be borne in mind. Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 16-Jun-05

Re: [Groff] Horizontal rule w/ length a fraction of the page wid

2005-07-15 Thread Ted Harding
can happen. Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 15-Jul-05 Time: 18:11:27 -- XFMail

RE: [Groff] Surface Integral in eqn

2005-08-17 Thread Ted Harding
between .EQ and .EN in your .../tmac/eqnrc file. Example (with the above already defined): .EQ I Sint sub S f(x) ~ dS .EN Hoping this helps, Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861

RE: Printer memory [Was: RE: [Groff] slack4, groff and ps]

2005-10-16 Thread Ted Harding
On 16-Oct-05 Daniel de Kok wrote: On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, (Ted Harding) wrote: The only thing I specially did (and indeed have done ever since), since the machine was so weak, was to buy a PostScript printer. With that, the PostScript output from groff went straight to the printer and did

RE: [Groff] Using groff as one's main WP/TP

2005-10-20 Thread Ted Harding
. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 20-Oct-05 Time: 18:21:53 -- XFMail

RE: [Groff] RE: PS and page background

2005-10-21 Thread Ted Harding
dropped as a project, pre-1970! Best wihes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 21-Oct-05 Time: 11:35:47

Re: [Groff] Introduction

2005-10-22 Thread Ted Harding
is more on the lines of You, you, and you! Line up and do that job. Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 22-Oct-05 Time: 14:23

Re: [Groff] XML and groff as frontend

2005-10-22 Thread Ted Harding
. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 22-Oct-05 Time: 23:45:44 -- XFMail -- ___ Groff mailing list Groff

Re: [Groff] XML and groff as frontend

2005-10-23 Thread Ted Harding
On 23-Oct-05 Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 11:45:50PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: Well, if you're using vim ... I do. First enter the following (in command mode) to define abbreviations: :ab c command [cut a lot of good advice] You mean something like iabbrev

RE: [Groff] Foxit PDF Reader

2005-10-23 Thread Ted Harding
. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 23-Oct-05 Time: 19:35:20 -- XFMail -- ___ Groff mailing list

RE: [Groff] Drawing filled circle segments

2005-10-25 Thread Ted Harding
careful watching. I will try to invent one, but probably others will beat me to it! Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 25-Oct-05

Re: [Groff] Drawing filled circle segments

2005-10-28 Thread Ted Harding
. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 28-Oct-05 Time: 17:04:29 -- XFMail -- ___ Groff

Re: [Groff] Drawing filled circle segments

2005-10-28 Thread Ted Harding
the impact should be different, you can re-calculate the radii for yourself according to a different rule. Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 28-Oct-05

RE: [Groff] Groff wiki?

2005-10-28 Thread Ted Harding
, but feel wary! Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 28-Oct-05 Time: 21:00:53 -- XFMail

Re: [Groff] Groff wiki?

2005-10-28 Thread Ted Harding
on the technicalities behind wikis, so eom of that material was over my head. Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 28-Oct-05 Time

Re: [Groff] Drawing filled circle segments

2005-10-28 Thread Ted Harding
E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 28-Oct-05 Time: 22:12:50 -- XFMail -- ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org

Re: [Groff] Groff wiki?

2005-10-28 Thread Ted Harding
; this is high praise indeed for a net.sources widget. Hence, this shar archive contains the author's original code and documentation, untouched. Share and enjoy. Could be interesting! Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted

Re: [Groff] Groff wiki?

2005-10-28 Thread Ted Harding
earlier post) but in the right area. Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 29-Oct-05 Time: 01:00:06

Re: [Groff] creep and booklets

2005-11-04 Thread Ted Harding
On 04-Nov-05 Bob Diertens wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:01:12AM -, Ted Harding wrote: Hi Folks, I'd welcome views and contributions about the following. It concerns making a booklet out of a PS document. 1. Background: If you have (say) a 16-page PS document, you can run

RE: [Groff] gs, gv

2005-11-06 Thread Ted Harding
to a good Linux list (if you are not already on one), and discuss your problem in detail there. Good luck! Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 06-Nov-05

RE: [Groff] u1D53C glyph

2005-11-16 Thread Ted Harding
. Hoping this helps, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 16-Nov-05 Time: 12:56:35 -- XFMail

Re: [Groff] u1D53C glyph

2005-11-16 Thread Ted Harding
(so-called blue book) from Adobe. Well worth having by you, for little things like this. Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 16-Nov-05

RE: [Groff] string variable in pic

2005-12-11 Thread Ted Harding
___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 11-Dec-05 Time: 14:02:36

Re: [Groff] string variable in pic

2005-12-11 Thread Ted Harding
of bcolor are replaced by red or yellow *including* the quotation marks! Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 11-Dec-05

Re: [Groff] Floating point arithmetic in groff

2006-01-31 Thread Ted Harding
'; the 'awk' step removes them. Hoping this helps, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 31-Jan-06 Time: 15:05:41 -- XFMail

Re: [Groff] Re: begin page blues

2006-02-22 Thread Ted Harding
the trouble to work out how to do it you develop a commitment. Best wishes to all, Ted. [Leaning on his wooden ploughshare] E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 22-Feb-06

[Groff] List delays

2006-02-23 Thread Ted Harding
. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 22-Feb-06 Time: 11:00:58 -- XFMail -- ___ Groff mailing list Groff

[Groff] RE: List delays

2006-02-25 Thread Ted Harding
On 22-Feb-06 Ted Harding wrote: It seems, looking at the headers of recent mails to the list, that postings to the groff list are being delayed at lists.gnu.org by 6-12 hours, typically over 9 hours. Is this (as I hope) a temporary phenomenon? Best wishes to all, Ted. With Miklos's

Re: [Groff] Re: Composed glyphs - quick and dirty solution

2006-03-07 Thread Ted Harding
, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 06-Mar-06 Time: 09:52:06 -- XFMail

RE: [Groff] PS printing - was Re: `Idot' vs. `Idotaccent'

2006-03-10 Thread Ted Harding
. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 10-Mar-06 Time: 22:12:32 -- XFMail

RE: [Groff] Re: Composed glyphs - quick and dirty solution

2006-03-10 Thread Ted Harding
of the over glyph is (in most cases) not relevant. Without this, italic c circumflex, say, might not look too bad; but italic l circumflex would look terrible. Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax

RE: [Groff] Adding fonts to groff -- instructions?

2006-03-11 Thread Ted Harding
. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 284 7749 Date: 09-Aug-00 Time: 12:59:42 -- XFMail -- ___ Groff

RE: [Groff] Looping and printing indices in groff

2006-03-13 Thread Ted Harding
wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 13-Mar-06 Time: 12:54:01 -- XFMail

RE: [Groff] Adding fonts to groff -- instructions?

2006-03-13 Thread Ted Harding
On 13-Mar-06 Robert Marks wrote: Ted suggests adding the font to /font/devps/DESC (see below). What is the purpose of this? I haven't done it and things seem to work, but perhaps I'm missing something. From: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Groff] Adding fonts to groff

RE: [Groff] PDF printing coming

2006-04-21 Thread Ted Harding
. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 21-Apr-06 Time: 10:33:56 -- XFMail -- ___ Groff mailing list

Re: [Groff] PDF printing coming

2006-04-21 Thread Ted Harding
On 21-Apr-06 Peter Schaffter wrote: Ted -- On Fri, Apr 21, 2006, Ted Harding wrote: I harbour fears that this proposed move towards PDF as the standard indicates an impending domination of the capable by the challenged. Is domination of the capable by the challenged your own phrase

RE: [Groff] Survey on Document Creation Software

2006-05-02 Thread Ted Harding
. Well, with 52 votes just now [3%], groff now weighs in at No 3 (after OpenOffice with 878 [53%] and TeX with 507 [31%]), if one excludes Other Commercial. Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax

RE: [Groff] Math symbol upside down?

2006-05-06 Thread Ted Harding
. Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 06-May-06 Time: 07:46:37 -- XFMail

Re: [Groff] Math symbol upside down?

2006-05-06 Thread Ted Harding
what's going on at a particular place you can outline it with the mouse and zoom it up. Well, it's good that the problem got solved! Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 06

RE: [Groff] Meeting Werner

2006-05-09 Thread Ted Harding
. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 09-May-06 Time: 14:08:49 -- XFMail -- ___ Groff mailing list Groff

Re: [Groff] Meeting Werner

2006-05-10 Thread Ted Harding
. Try a ggogle search using groff family ... there are more about than one might think! Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 10-May-06 Time: 07

Re: [Groff] Meeting Werner

2006-05-10 Thread Ted Harding
: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 10-May-06 Time: 09:13:58 -- XFMail -- ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http

RE: [Groff] Inline evaluation of calculations?

2006-05-11 Thread Ted Harding
wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 11-May-06 Time: 19:18:46 -- XFMail

RE: [Groff] Sun's troff now available

2006-06-24 Thread Ted Harding
interesting things illustrated in the PDFs on the site -- see e.g. http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools/troffdemo.pdf http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools/fonts.pdf Thanks. Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Groff] Sun's troff now available

2006-06-26 Thread Ted Harding
. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 26-Jun-06 Time: 10:34:03 -- XFMail -- ___ Groff mailing list Groff

Re: [Groff] Sun's troff now available

2006-06-26 Thread Ted Harding
On 26-Jun-06 Peter Schaffter wrote: On Mon, Jun 26, 2006, Ted Harding wrote: [...] Once again, I suspect that all this kind of thing could be helped by pre-output access to the finally formatted output line (since the mechanism I describe above amounts to this, but riding a mule to climb

Re: [Groff] Sun's troff now available

2006-06-27 Thread Ted Harding
On 27-Jun-06 Peter Schaffter wrote: On Mon, Jun 26, 2006, Ted Harding wrote: FWIW, back in the Museum, even though galleys were set from what amounted to source files, the workstations had a continuously updating status line snip I'm wondering if this is the kind of pre-output access

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

2006-07-10 Thread Ted Harding
polygons. The current values of the relevant parameters can be accessed in PS by 'currentlinejoin' and 'currentlinecap' etc. Hoping this helps Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date

[Groff] groff on GNU

2006-07-13 Thread Ted Harding
carries the burden of groff's role in formatting man-pages, i.e. supporting Unix-style documentation, which masks its true merits as a typesetting system. I feel this should be changed! Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted

Re: [Groff] groff on GNU

2006-07-13 Thread Ted Harding
On 13-Jul-06 Werner LEMBERG wrote: [about the contents of www.gnu.org] I feel this should be changed! Please go forth and submit changes to the website maintainers! Werner OK, will do! Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding

Re: [Groff] Line length and page offset in MS

2006-07-26 Thread Ted Harding
6i .nr LL \n[.l] (I have never thought twice about this -- at least not for a very long time -- since I got into the habit of it with sqtroff back in 1984). best wisyhes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email

Re: [Groff] patch for pdfroff

2006-07-31 Thread Ted Harding
. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 31-Jul-06 Time: 17:04:43 -- XFMail

Re: [Groff] patch for pdfroff

2006-08-01 Thread Ted Harding
On 01-Aug-06 Keith MARSHALL wrote: Ted Harding wrote: I recommend as a definitive example the instructions contained in British Standard 6008 (BS 6008:1980, ISO 3103:1980): Method for Preparation of a liquor of tea ... , of which a PDF copy can be found at http://ftp.ee.surrey.ac.uk

RE: [Groff] explicit hyphen and numbers

2006-08-10 Thread Ted Harding
. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 10-Aug-06 Time: 14:46:56 -- XFMail -- ___ Groff mailing list

Re: [Groff] explicit hyphen and numbers

2006-08-11 Thread Ted Harding
: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 11-Aug-06 Time: 09:33:56 -- XFMail -- ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http

RE: [Groff] soelim and file names defined in string registers

2006-08-18 Thread Ted Harding
. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 18-Aug-06 Time: 12:36:23 -- XFMail -- ___ Groff

Re: [Groff] soelim and file names defined in string registers

2006-08-18 Thread Ted Harding
. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 18-Aug-06 Time: 15:53:05 -- XFMail

RE: [Groff] help required regarding groff/psroff

2006-08-28 Thread Ted Harding
it from these file? If the latter, what sort of files are these? If you can clarify your question, someone may be able to help you! Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date

[Groff] Cosmetic filling

2006-08-29 Thread Ted Harding
position, to within ocular resolution! Any comments? E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 29-Aug-06 Time: 23:18:40 -- XFMail

Re: [Groff] Cosmetic filling

2006-08-30 Thread Ted Harding
-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 30-Aug-06 Time: 11:57:23 -- XFMail -- ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http

Re: [Groff] Cosmetic filling

2006-08-31 Thread Ted Harding
On 31-Aug-06 Gunnar Ritter wrote: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. I'm not aware of a simple mechanism in groff to do this -- e.g. fill all lines whose minimum formatted length is within X of line-length. ATT troff has a \n(.x register which holds the remaining horizontal

Re: [Groff] Cosmetic filling

2006-08-31 Thread Ted Harding
OOPS!!! Ignore my response below! 1. In groff. \n[.x] is the major version number of groff 2. \[.rl] of course does not exist so would get value 0 if invoked. Ted. On 31-Aug-06 Ted Harding wrote: On 31-Aug-06 Gunnar Ritter wrote: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. I'm not aware

RE: [Groff] Question re: embedded fonts

2006-09-01 Thread Ted Harding
Hoping you will get a more helpful reply than I can give! Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 01-Sep-06 Time: 17:28:39

Re: [Groff] Cosmetic filling

2006-09-05 Thread Ted Harding
-- of X -- at which it happens!) Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 05-Sep-06 Time: 19:20:45

Re: [Groff] Background Image

2006-09-16 Thread Ted Harding
. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 16-Sep-06 Time: 20:54:06 -- XFMail

Re: [Groff] Passing -D argument to grap on groff command line?

2006-09-21 Thread Ted Harding
on this work. (I don't think this consideration can apply to tbl, however, since there's nothing in the way of preliminary work you can do which would apply to a subsequent .TS ... .TE). Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted

Re: [Groff] empty line before .TH in man page produces sometimes

2006-10-02 Thread Ted Harding
not be what you want! Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 02-Oct-06 Time: 11:10:38 -- XFMail

[Groff] Perspective in Pic

2006-10-16 Thread Ted Harding
of there is a general approach at all, within the world of groff/PostScript. Comments? Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 17-Oct-06

[Groff] Tweaking font metrics

2006-10-22 Thread Ted Harding
it as a discussion point, aiming at the question Would it be useful to have extensions of this kind to the groff requests? Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 22-Oct-06

RE: [Groff] Formatting braille

2006-11-13 Thread Ted Harding
straightforward enough that it could be achieved readily using groff, provided one has all the deatils needed to define the methods. Hoping this helps, as a first response! Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax

RE: [Groff] Line-drawing escape

2006-11-28 Thread Ted Harding
. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 28-Nov-06 Time: 17:15:41 -- XFMail -- ___ Groff mailing list

RE: [Groff] Using Printer Jogging with groff

2006-12-08 Thread Ted Harding
. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 08-Dec-06 Time: 10:33:00 -- XFMail

Re: [Groff] Modifying hyphenation rules?

2006-12-21 Thread Ted Harding
... Personally, I'd be tempted to turn hyphenation off at least some of the time! Best wishes, and Heppy Festive Season to all! Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 21-Dec-06

[Groff] RE: Simplifying groff documentation

2006-12-22 Thread Ted Harding
. So I see from the groff project page, which I should have checked first. Copying to Ted Harding and the groff list, which I just subscribed to. I want to drastically simplify the markup used in several pieces of groff documentation, eliminating a lot of the hairy custom macros they presently

Re: [Groff] RE: Simplifying groff documentation

2006-12-23 Thread Ted Harding
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. I agree exactly with what Peter says! Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44

Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation

2006-12-23 Thread Ted Harding
. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 23-Dec-06 Time: 18:15:53 -- XFMail -- ___ Groff mailing list Groff

Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation

2007-01-03 Thread Ted Harding
New Year, to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 03-Jan-07 Time: 11:34:49 -- XFMail

Re: OK [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation

2007-01-04 Thread Ted Harding
it as rewarding as I did. Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 04-Jan-07 Time: 14:45:20 -- XFMail

RE: [Groff] Is there an easy way to find out the width of the mo

2007-01-04 Thread Ted Harding
, then you can of course copy the values of \n[TW] to new registers, e.g. .nr TW.1 \n[TW] .nr TW.2 \n[TW] Hoping this helps, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 04-Jan-07

RE: [Groff] On copying text from PDF files that started with gro

2007-01-25 Thread Ted Harding
of some PDF-text programs, may well be close to the mark! My mouse (with its tail plugged into X Windows on Linux) has very little brain, yet it has worked really well. Hmmm. Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL

Re: [Groff] XXX Funny movie

2007-01-26 Thread Ted Harding
rapidly over the last few days ... Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 26-Jan-07 Time: 15:51:25

Re: [Groff] XXX Funny movie

2007-01-27 Thread Ted Harding
On 27-Jan-07 Werner LEMBERG wrote: The problem we are seeing is that after all the parts have been removed, there is still a non-empty signature text piece left ... so the message is not discarded. BUT ... that signature is added by mailman itself! I've now removed the mailing list

[Groff] Our spam

2007-01-27 Thread Ted Harding
analysis. will do the trick! Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 27-Jan-07 Time: 10:31:15 -- XFMail --

RE: [Groff] chess font?

2007-02-02 Thread Ted Harding
as such when installing into groff. And, of course, the other file you'll need is cheq.afm! Hoping this helps, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 02-Feb-07

RE: [Groff] Coloured equations?

2007-02-05 Thread Ted Harding
changes. Granted, this is tedious and error-prone, but it's the only kind of way I can think of to use colours in an equation solely for the quantitative symbols. Other may have better ideas! Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding

Re: [Groff] eqn's `...' operator

2007-02-05 Thread Ted Harding
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RE: [Groff] A progress report

2007-02-07 Thread Ted Harding
On 07-Feb-07 Eric S. Raymond wrote: This is for Ted Harding and others who have felt they weren't being sufficiently informed about the changes I've been making. Comments and suggestions welcomed. Thanks! Comment regarding EQN following: 1. EQN The new MathML back end to eqn continues

Re: [Groff] A progress report

2007-02-07 Thread Ted Harding
On 07-Feb-07 Eric S. Raymond wrote: Ted Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I.e., can one set a global variable2 in MathML? Where, in this case, it would have the value of the offset at the mark point, and be called on for setting offsets at subsequent lineups? Alas, the answer is no. The MathML

Re: [Groff] tbl problems in man

2007-02-08 Thread Ted Harding
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RE: [Groff] \*SN] question

2007-02-12 Thread Ted Harding
have been produced. Was your result different, and, if so, what is supposed to be wrong with it? Bestwishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 12-Feb-07

[Groff] .MC - .1C in ms macro

2007-02-19 Thread Ted Harding
-definition of page length) to get the layout you want. Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 19-Feb-07 Time: 20:48:39

RE: [Groff] .MC - .1C in ms macro

2007-02-19 Thread Ted Harding
On 19-Feb-07 Ted Harding wrote: While I'm at it, I've lately been playing with a work-round for the often awkward feature of the .MC and .1C macros in the ms macros, that when you break out of MC back to 1C you also get a page-break. While the me macros allow you to go from 2 columns back

RE: [Groff] Eqn, tbl and groff characters

2007-04-03 Thread Ted Harding
use for $$ as money than for $$ in eqn. It's different with ££ of course ... ). Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 03-Apr-07

RE: [Groff] title page

2007-04-15 Thread Ted Harding
this, then similarly construct your own, and make this your page 1 (as above). Can you clarify what your problem really is? Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 15-Apr-07

RE: [Groff] Omission in -ms man page

2007-05-11 Thread Ted Harding
sure that it's the second argument and the first is one of the three alignment specifiers! E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 11-May-07 Time: 12

RE: [Groff] preconv, unicode, greek and indexing

2007-05-20 Thread Ted Harding
is a contributor to this list, I'm sure he will be happy to tell us where these resources can now be found (if thay can still be found). Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094

RE: [Groff] Research on word processor

2007-07-04 Thread Ted Harding
look at OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org/ Hoping this helps! Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 04-Jul-07 Time: 14:55:41

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