Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> >> You say mdoc; shouldn't the links be Lk?
>
> In mdoc(7): yes, absolutely.
> Use .Lk in mdoc(7), .UR is not supported by mdoc(7) at all.
Thank you, Ingo, for letting me know that. I'll use Lk if I can figure
out how to get it to format my text so it looks as nice as UR/
On Jun 16 02:36:40, hacke...@member.fsf.org wrote:
> Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>
> > >> You say mdoc; shouldn't the links be Lk?
> >
> > In mdoc(7): yes, absolutely.
> > Use .Lk in mdoc(7), .UR is not supported by mdoc(7) at all.
>
> Thank you, Ingo, for letting me know that. I'll use Lk if I can fi
On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 13:36:41 +0200
Jan Stary wrote:
> > Third, and worst of all, it then prints out the entire URL without
> > wrapping, exceeding the right margin for long URLs.
>
> How do you suggest a long URL should be typeset?
> It's an honest question: I don't know. It seems weird
> to e.g
On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 21:24:23 +1000
John Gardner wrote:
> Modifying the macro packages to use these features wouldn't be hard.
> It's simply a matter of
>
> .if '\*(.T'pdf' .if d pdfmark \{\
>
> .pdfmark ?
>
> .\}
+1
I'm glad B 9 asked the question, because I've been meaning to try to
syn
On Tuesday, 16 June 2020 02:52:17 BST Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> One person already recommended a way to make normal .Lk in mdoc(7)
> and normal .UR in man(7) produce PDF links with groff, but i suggest
> a different perspective. Decide what it is that you really want:
> if you want excellent typograp
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 09:55:01AM -0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
> Subject: Re: Groff macro to make .UR and .UE links clickable in PDF?
>
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 13:36:41 +0200
> Jan Stary wrote:
>
> > How do you suggest a long URL should be typeset?
> > It's an honest question: I don't know. It s
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020, Steve Izma wrote:
> Anyway, my strategies for typesetting for a printed document:
Excellent advice, well reasoned and well presented.
I would add that inserting \: (the zero-width break point) before
or after every forward slash in a URL, depending on the style
guidelines of
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 03:00:55PM -0400, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> Subject: Re: Groff macro to make .UR and .UE links clickable in PDF?
>
> I would add that inserting \: (the zero-width break point) before
> or after every forward slash in a URL, depending on the style
> guidelines of a document,
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020, Steve Izma wrote:
> Anyway, my strategies for typesetting for a printed document:
I'm always impressed by people who know how to typeset AND how to
write! Thank you for the clear and concise rules.
Steve Izma wrote:
> - don't set the URL at all in the body of the text but
Jan Stary wrote:
> Attached please see the PDF output of groff 1.22.4 and mandoc 1.14.5;
> neither of them adds a newline before or after the clickable link.
What is the groff command line you are using? I tried groff 1.22.4 on
a couple different machines and couldn't come up with a clickable li
On Jun 16 19:02:50, hacke...@member.fsf.org wrote:
> Jan Stary wrote:
>
> > Attached please see the PDF output of groff 1.22.4 and mandoc 1.14.5;
> > neither of them adds a newline before or after the clickable link.
>
> What is the groff command line you are using? I tried groff 1.22.4 on
> a c
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