Re: [9fans] troff macros for typesetting books/longer texts

2011-03-24 Thread Allan Heim
troff got me my first job in the industry, working at SCO in the '80s as a typesetter. I swore by my copy of Word Processing on the UNIX System by Morris Krieger, and I'm shocked to not see it listed at http://www.troff.org/books.html but a Google search shows that used copies are still

Re: [9fans] troff macros for typesetting books/longer texts

2011-03-24 Thread hiro
i think everybody would appreciate one xor the other cleaned up, de-pccified and added to the distribution. I like this use of languages :) The thread is getting big. Perhaps simply learning troff/tex is indeed easier. But I really am no typesetter, just a simple computer user. Tex is yet an

Re: [9fans] troff macros for typesetting books/longer texts

2011-03-24 Thread Gabriel Diaz
hello html? For those who use math in their docs, this might be of interest: http://www.mathjax.org, gabi On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:16 PM, hiro 23h...@googlemail.com wrote: i think everybody would appreciate one xor the other cleaned up, de-pccified and added to the distribution. I like

[9fans] troff macro II

2011-03-24 Thread Rudolf Sykora
Hello 9fans, since in the previous thread started by me ('troff macros for typesetting books/longer texts') nobody touched my question about producing wanted headings, I started experimenting, but so far has not been quite successful. Since text to appear in my headings is to mirror section

Re: [9fans] troff macro II

2011-03-24 Thread Gregory Pavelcak
Typing from phone so I'll be brief. Just put the header at the bottom of the page and pipe the .ps output through sed to change the vertical position. I found this easier than moving back up the page in troff. Greg On Mar 24, 2011 12:56 PM, Rudolf Sykora rudolf.syk...@gmail.com wrote: Hello

[9fans] how can I set path

2011-03-24 Thread 流明
I'm new to plan9. i don't know how to set path on plan9, can you help me? thank you.

Re: [9fans] how can I set path

2011-03-24 Thread Jacob Todd
You don't. You may want read /sys/doc/9.ps.

Re: [9fans] how can I set path

2011-03-24 Thread 流明
but i want to build inferno on plan9, i have to add /usr/glenda/inferno/Plan9/386/bin to my default path. how can i do that? From: Jacob Todd jaketodd422@gma... Subject: how can I set path Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:23:09 -0400 You don't. You may want read /sys/doc/9.ps.

Re: [9fans] how can I set path

2011-03-24 Thread John Floren
bind -b /usr/glenda/inferno/Plan9/386/bin /bin 2011/3/24 流明 34261...@qq.com: but i want to build inferno on plan9, i have to add /usr/glenda/inferno/Plan9/386/bin to my default path. how can i do that? From: Jacob Todd jaketodd422@gma... Subject: how can I set path Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011

Re: [9fans] how can I set path

2011-03-24 Thread Jacob Todd
bind -a /usr/glenda/inferno/Plan9/386/bin /bin

Re: [9fans] how can I set path

2011-03-24 Thread 流明
it does! thank you very much! From: John Floren john@jfl... Subject: how can I set path Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:36:51 -0700 bind -b /usr/glenda/inferno/Plan9/386/bin /bin 2011/3/24 ���˜Ž 34261...@qq.com: but i want to build inferno on plan9, i have to� add