Re: [Groff] .mso for groff_hdtbl(7)

2013-02-05 Thread Werner LEMBERG
In my man-page is everything ok, as soon as I use the .mso line, even groffer in tty mode. Using `groff -man -mhdtbl ...' leads to errors, even without any output. 2 `-m' parameters seem to be illegal. Well, in this very case Bernd is right: You *must* write .TH .mso hdtbl.tmac

Re: [Groff] replicating official memo

2013-02-05 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
I'm thinking now if I ever want to do footnotes or number headings or whatever, I should instead customize one of the existing macro packages. If you're doing this (mostly) for fun and to really learn troff, I suggest you try to cobble together your own macros for this first. Then you can

Re: [Groff] .mso for groff_hdtbl(7)

2013-02-05 Thread Joachim Walsdorff
Am 05.02.2013 09:13, schrieb Werner LEMBERG: In my man-page is everything ok, as soon as I use the .mso line, even groffer in tty mode. Using `groff -man -mhdtbl ...' leads to errors, even without any output. 2 `-m' parameters seem to be illegal. Well, in this very case Bernd is right: You

Re: [Groff] replicating official memo

2013-02-05 Thread Bernd Warken
Von: Tadziu Hoffmann hoffm...@usm.uni-muenchen.de A good starting point are the tutorial examples in the old Bell Labs Computing Science Technical Report #54 (http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/54.ps.gz). The 54.ps.gz are broken all over the internet. But http://troff.org/54.pdf

Re: [Groff] replicating official memo

2013-02-05 Thread Pierre-Jean
Daniel Lyons fus...@storytotell.org wrote: I'm fairly new to groff. Me too, I'm a four year old troffer. I'm thinking now if I ever want to do footnotes or number headings or whatever, I should instead customize one of the existing macro packages. This is my question. I think there's four

Re: [Groff] broken documentation for ideal

2013-02-05 Thread Werner LEMBERG
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/103.ps.gz 103.ps.gz is broken, beginning at page 5. Does anyone have another format or knows about that? Bernd Warken I just opened the above link and for me it's *not* broken (25 pages). Bernd, try to call ghostscript's ps2pdf to get a searchable

Re: [Groff] broken documentation for ideal

2013-02-05 Thread Denis M. Wilson
It looks fine to me (using gv as a viewer), although rough round the edges, as I use the URW not Adobe fonts. The document structure is incomplete, so gv does not display page numbers. Denis On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 11:55:18 +0100 (CET) Bernd Warken groff-bernd.warken...@web.de wrote: From

Re: [Groff] replicating official memo

2013-02-05 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, Bernd wrote: Tadziu wrote: A good starting point are the tutorial examples in the old Bell Labs Computing Science Technical Report #54 (http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/54.ps.gz). The 54.ps.gz are broken all over the internet. But http://troff.org/54.pdf works. (The bell-labs

Re: [Groff] broken documentation for ideal

2013-02-05 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
103.ps.gz is broken, beginning at page 5. Does anyone have another format or knows about that? I hacked the PS file to create a PDF that appears to be okay: www.usm.lmu.de/~hoffmann/roff/103.pdf

Re: [Groff] replicating official memo

2013-02-05 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
(http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/54.ps.gz). The 54.ps.gz are broken all over the internet. Sorry, I had forgotten about that because I had fixed my downloaded copy. It's actually quite simple: move all the %%BeginGlobal...%%EndGlobal sections into the prolog (i.e., before %%EndProlog)

Re: [Groff] replicating official memo

2013-02-05 Thread Bernd Warken
Von: Tadziu Hoffmann hoffm...@usm.uni-muenchen.de (http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/54.ps.gz). The 54.ps.gz are broken all over the internet. Sorry, I had forgotten about that because I had fixed my downloaded copy. It's actually quite simple: move all the

Re: [Groff] replicating official memo

2013-02-05 Thread Peter Schaffter
Daniel -- On Mon, Feb 04, 2013, Daniel Lyons wrote: I'm thinking now if I ever want to do footnotes or number headings or whatever, I should instead customize one of the existing macro packages. This is my question. I gather this is usually done with -ms, is that correct? Would anybody

Re: [Groff] replicating official memo

2013-02-05 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
I would be nice if you could do that for the other cstr ps-files that document classical troff. I'll try. Which files will we need?

Re: [Groff] replicating official memo

2013-02-05 Thread Bernd Warken
Von: Tadziu Hoffmann hoffm...@usm.uni-muenchen.de I would be nice if you could do that for the other cstr ps-files that document classical troff. I'll try. Thank you. Which files will we need? See http://troff.org/papers.html. There are the CSTR-files, but also a lot of other