Re: [Groff] ubuntu, groff and utf-8

2005-03-12 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
> This is correct, unfortunately. groff doesn't yet support UTF8 input. > You have to convert your file first to something groff can understand. > > Below is a small perl script which does that. This does not work (Mdk 10.2rc1, groff 1.19 with some mdk patches but they are unlikely be the cause)

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

2005-03-12 Thread Jon Snader
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 08:18:44PM -0500, Peter Schaffter wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2005, Mats Broberg wrote: > > Since I don't know much about groff yet, this may be a uninformed > > question - but is it possible to use e.g. other listmembers' specific > > macros for crossreferences together with m

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

2005-03-12 Thread Peter Schaffter
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 Author of _The Schumann

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

2005-03-12 Thread Jon Snader
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 11:17:45AM -0500, Peter Schaffter wrote: > 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

Re: [Groff] questions about postscript and tex/latex output

2005-03-12 Thread Larry Kollar
Robert Dodier wrote: (1) The postscript output option (-T ps) puts the stuff between .DS/.DE in variable-width font, although I would have expected fixed width font. Is there a way to cajole groff into considering .DS/.DE stuff to be fixed width font? I haven't tried this, but it should work -- put

RE: [Groff] questions about postscript and tex/latex output

2005-03-12 Thread Robert Dodier
Hi Ted, Thanks a lot for taking the time to reply to my question. I decided to try putting .ft CR/.ft within each .DS/.DE and it turned out just right. I used sed to do that so it was actually really quick and easy. It's too bad that there is no straightforward conversion to tex or latex. The do

[Groff] Animation software

2005-03-12 Thread M Bianchi
Regarding the animation-using-groff idea presented in A System for Algorithm Animation Tutorial and User Manual Computing Science Technical Report No. 132 http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/132.ps.gz The code for the programs mentioned in the paper are available at

Re: [Groff] ubuntu, groff and utf-8

2005-03-12 Thread Michail Vidiassov
Dear Werner, you wrote: No, this is a misunderstanding. I want a library of artificial characters which combines base characters and accents to composite characters, e.g. .fchar \[u0041_0304] \Z''A .fchar \[-A] \[u0041_0304] Those macros should work for all platforms and -- if possible -- for al

[Groff] Re: Extending GNU PIC to include animation

2005-03-12 Thread Robert Marks
>From: Manas Laha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [Groff] Extending GNU PIC to include animation > > >Ralph Corderoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi Gaius, >> >> > I was wondering if this idea has any wider usage (and whether it is >> > feasible or whether the idea has been tried before?). >>