[Groff] mom and the impatient beginner

2012-09-04 Thread mikkel meinike
Hi! I know I could probably find the answers to these things if I tried reading the documentation and spent 2 to 3 or 4 or 5 hours on it, but I also know that some of you might be able to answer me in minutes so now I ask and hope it's OK. Basically, I want a square of text that fills a whole A4

Re: [Groff] mom and the impatient beginner

2012-09-04 Thread Peter Schaffter
Mikkel -- On Tue, Sep 04, 2012, mikkel meinike wrote: Basically, I want a square of text that fills a whole A4 sheet to the margin. As square as possible. So I need justified text but I guess that is default with mom. So I figured it's just to use. .PP and make a paragraph and then adjust the

Re: [Groff] Question re: groff to PS to PDF to Microsoft Word...

2012-09-04 Thread Michael Parson
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012, ted.hard...@wlandres.net wrote: On 11-Aug-2012 22:33:21 Larry Kollar wrote: Clarke Echols cla...@verinet.net wrote: I have a potential client who needs copy in DOC/Word format, and I'm on Linux. ... Last time I tried anything of the sort, I produced a doc file from

[Groff] passing groff special chars to pdfmark as bookmarks

2012-09-04 Thread smoore
All, I have encoded unicode utf8 chars in groff's special char handling glyphs, \['e], \[^a], ect. These work fine in the body of the text, however, when a macro pulls text for bookmarks, the character disappears. I've thought about protecting the glyph, however, i am thinking now i have

Re: [Groff] mom and the impatient beginner

2012-09-04 Thread mikkel meinike
Hi You are to cool Peter :-). Some of this I have already figuret out myself. I simply skipped the .PP and just insertet the text after .START. Mom is real nice. Thanks Mikkel Den 04/09/2012 20.03 skrev Peter Schaffter pe...@schaffter.ca: Mikkel -- On Tue, Sep 04, 2012, mikkel meinike wrote:

Re: [Groff] passing groff special chars to pdfmark as bookmarks

2012-09-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I have encoded unicode utf8 chars in groff's special char handling glyphs, \['e], \[^a], ect. These work fine in the body of the text, however, when a macro pulls text for bookmarks, the character disappears. Minimum example, please, together with your calling sequence. Werner

Re: [Groff] Question re: groff to PS to PDF to Microsoft Word...

2012-09-04 Thread Larry Kollar
On Sep 4, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Michael Parson mpar...@bl.org wrote: How long ago was that? OpenOffice has improved over the last couple years. I have just tried the groff--PS--PDF--OpenOffice route. When given the PDF file to open, OO Writer took a while, and then came up with a screen that

Re: [Groff] passing groff special chars to pdfmark as bookmarks

2012-09-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
[Please configure your e-mail program so that it replies to CCed addresses also.] Minimum example, please, together with your calling sequence. Werner Sure. Given original text file date string macros as : .DA 20 avril 2012 S\['e]ance de l\*[psq]avant-midi .de DA \\$1 \\$2