Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro

2014-09-21 Thread Deri James
On Sun 21 Sep 2014 06:38:42 Werner LEMBERG wrote: A good starting point may be to implement a C/C++ library function, to extract the MediaBox properties; that would open the gate to a possible pdfbb request, which gtroff.exe could process internally. Alternatively, we could modify

Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro

2014-09-21 Thread Ted Harding
On 21-Sep-2014 10:52:38 Deri James wrote: On Sun 21 Sep 2014 06:38:42 Werner LEMBERG wrote: A good starting point may be to implement a C/C++ library function, to extract the MediaBox properties; that would open the gate to a possible pdfbb request, which gtroff.exe could process

Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro

2014-09-21 Thread Keith Marshall
On 21/09/14 11:52, Deri James wrote: On Sun 21 Sep 2014 06:38:42 Werner LEMBERG wrote: A good starting point may be to implement a C/C++ library function, to extract the MediaBox properties; that would open the gate to a possible pdfbb request, which gtroff.exe could process internally.

Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro

2014-09-21 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 03:29:18PM +0100, Keith Marshall wrote: Yes, it is. Someone on the list has contacted me, with a view to writing the code, Who might that be? If it was off-list, then we have a problem -- we all need to be kept in the picture, with this sort of stuff. I ask

Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro

2014-09-21 Thread Deri James
On Sun 21 Sep 2014 15:29:18 Keith Marshall wrote: Good idea! Yes, it is. Someone on the list has contacted me, with a view to writing the code, Who might that be? If it was off-list, then we have a problem -- we all need to be kept in the picture, with this sort of stuff. I ask

Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-09-21 Thread Bertrand Garrigues
Hello Werner and all the list, On Mon, Sep 08 2014 at 08:11:04 AM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: I've just pushed a new branch 'automake2' (branched from master at commit 985b1eacaf24981f29bb4a5d53b8961dbafcdfef, about a month ago) where I split my original work into smaller commits. It's

Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro

2014-09-21 Thread Keith Marshall
On 21/09/14 20:04, Deri James wrote: I'm glad that Ulrich has answered you, it was not my place to identify the person as they contacted me privately, Sure, but we must strenuously discourage such private communications; how on earth can we expect to effectively co-ordinate development, if

Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro

2014-09-21 Thread Keith Marshall
On 21/09/14 20:50, Keith Marshall wrote: I'd be happy to send you the same email I sent to Ulrich but the email address;- Keith Marshall keithmarsh...@users.sourceforge.net Bounces my emails Strange. It is working, but may be faulting intermittently; I'll log an issue with

Re: [Groff] mission statement source

2014-09-21 Thread Bertrand Garrigues
On Thu, Sep 18 2014 at 01:41:50 AM, Dave Kemper saint.s...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is it an oversight that the Mission Statement section of the project page (http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/#mission-statement) contains only two of the three groff source files needed to produce the formatted

Re: [Groff] Documentation for -mom

2014-09-21 Thread GregExp
Thanks a lot for your answers Ralph, Ingo and Dale. I got all what I need Cheers, Greg Le vendredi 19 septembre 2014 à 14:15 +0100, Ralph Corderoy a écrit : Hi Ingo, To mitigate that situation, i think it would help a bit to include a link to http://www.schaffter.ca/mom/mom-04.html (that

Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-09-21 Thread Bernd Warken
Von: Bertrand Garrigues bertrand.garrig...@laposte.net With commit a88127a4fecb307f26f2e217213d4a90e300d220 the automake2 branch is now ready for more testing from other members of the list. git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/groff.git git checkout automake2 ./bootstrap mkdir build

Re: [Groff] new automake system

2014-09-21 Thread Bernd Warken
Von: Bertrand Garrigues bertrand.garrig...@laposte.net Then you can check in the TESTS file for the other targets. Please note that compared to the current build system: - There are 2 new targets, 'make check' and 'make distcheck' - Parallel build is supported. With both checks I got

Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro

2014-09-21 Thread Deri James
On Sun 21 Sep 2014 20:50:37 Keith Marshall wrote: On 21/09/14 20:04, Deri James wrote: I'm glad that Ulrich has answered you, it was not my place to identify the person as they contacted me privately, Sure, but we must strenuously discourage such private communications; how on earth can

Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro

2014-09-21 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014, Deri James wrote: On Sun 21 Sep 2014 20:50:37 Keith Marshall wrote: On 21/09/14 20:04, Deri James wrote: I'm glad that Ulrich has answered you, it was not my place to identify the person as they contacted me privately, Sure, but we must strenuously discourage

Re: [Groff] PDFPIC macro

2014-09-21 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014, Keith Marshall wrote: On 18/09/14 14:42, Peter Schaffter wrote: Would an addition to the warning emitted by the macro be sufficient to alert users to the potential dangers of -U? Perhaps, but it's so much better if it can be avoided altogether. FWIW, in my former

Re: [Groff] Documentation for -mom

2014-09-21 Thread Peter Schaffter
Sorry not to get back on this right away. I've been away for a couple of days--work and computer free! On Fri, Sep 19, 2014, Ingo Schwarze wrote: I am loking for an easy documentation about -mom. This documentation should discribe how -mom macros are working. Have you seen