Re: Is .rd implemented at all?

At 2020-12-16T20:30:33-0600, Dave Kemper wrote: > On 12/15/20, Dorai Sitaram wrote: > > Thanks Dave, for the suggestion. That doesn't seem to be the > > problem, however, on my machine (Ubuntu 20.10). No-argument cat > > works as expected. > > Then something peculiar to the Ubuntu groff seems

[bug #59738] mdoc: .Lk suppresses end-of-sentence recognition

URL: Summary: mdoc: .Lk suppresses end-of-sentence recognition Project: GNU troff Submitted by: gbranden Submitted on: Sun 20 Dec 2020 07:48:34 AM UTC Category: Macro - mdoc

[bug #57218] [PATCH] Reproducible builds support is broken and embeds timezone

Follow-up Comment #9, bug #57218 (project groff): See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2020-12/msg00039.html for further discussion. ___ Reply to this item at:

[PROPOSAL] time zones and reproducible builds (was: How to make groff use local timezone?)

At 2020-12-16T10:54:40+, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 11:35:12AM +1100, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > What do people think about a GROFF_USE_UTC environment variable that > > causes troff to call gmtime() instead of localtime()? > > How would this differ from just setting

[bug #59736] ms: implement .EM macro

URL: Summary: ms: implement .EM macro Project: GNU troff Submitted by: gbranden Submitted on: Sun 20 Dec 2020 04:44:54 AM UTC Category: Macro - ms Severity: 3 -

[bug #59643] doc/ms.ms: 1p is exactly, not "about", 1/72 inch

Update of bug #59643 (project groff): Status: Confirmed => In Progress ___ Reply to this item at: ___

"mom": addition of ellipsis causes an over-strike

Groff mailing list, A (second) question about "mom" and over-striking of text. I started with the "mom" example file named "sample_docs.mom" and (only) added the Unicode "\[u2026]" for the ellipsis character in the middle of line 482. In the resulting PDF output file, the ellipsis appears on

Re: End-of-sentence spacing

On Sat, 19 Dec 2020, Karthik Suresh wrote: First, when you do the purely mechanical operations of typing, type so subsequent editing will be easy. Start each sentence on a new line. Make lines short, and break lines at natural places, such as after commas and semicolons, rather than

Re: End-of-sentence spacing

On 19/12/2020 22:36, James K. Lowden wrote: On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 20:18:19 + Karthik Suresh wrote: I think it's also the advice Brian Kernighan gives about breaking at natural phrase points in the text as we tend to edit a phrase at a time. I hadn't heard that. Do you know where you

Re: End-of-sentence spacing

On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 20:18:19 + Karthik Suresh wrote: > I think it's also the advice Brian Kernighan gives about breaking > at natural phrase points in the text as we tend to edit a phrase at a > time. I hadn't heard that. Do you know where you read it? A had a college professor who

Re: End-of-sentence spacing

On 12/19/20, Peter Schaffter wrote: > On Sat, Dec 19, 2020, Ulrich Lauther wrote: >> In my opinion it is good style to start every sentence on a new >> source line. > > A piece of advice I have been happily ignoring since sometime back > in the 90s. ... > This is the the first paragraph of _Bleak

Re: End-of-sentence spacing

On 12/19/20, Dorai Sitaram wrote: > groff pretty much forces one to use two spaces after sentence-ending > punctuation, unless it's at the end of a source line. Is there a way to > avoid this, so that the space is uniform regardless of whether the ending > punctuation occurs mid- or end-line?

Re: End-of-sentence spacing

In my opinion it is good style to start every sentence on a new source line. A piece of advice I have been happily ignoring since sometime back in the 90s. Certain kinds of texts (scientific, technical) and the ways they are to be used (e.g. one off, or formatted for multiple media types

Re: End-of-sentence spacing

I've been using a simple solution successfully for years. In my own macros I wrote and use, I include the troff/groff provision for specifying the end-of-sentence ratio as follows:   " .ss 12 20" End-of-sentence identified by two space characters creates a space equal to normal space times

Re: End-of-sentence spacing

Ha! Glad I'm not the only one who is driven up the wall by newlines at the end of every sentence. I've heard this policy touted so many times by folk who are obviously expert (even those who don't troff), and I have no doubt at all it works for them. I just can't read or edit it to save my

Re: End-of-sentence spacing

On Sat, Dec 19, 2020, Ulrich Lauther wrote: > On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 10:27:01AM +, Dorai Sitaram wrote: > > groff pretty much forces one to use two spaces after > > sentence-ending punctuation, unless it's at the end of a source > > line. > > In my opinion it is good style to start every

Re: "mom": text on second page is overstruck

Peter, Thanks very much. I processed the same document with the 2.4-4_c macro version (as opposed to 2.1-c_1) and confirm the correct behavior where the column text now appears as expected, with no overstriking. Thanks again. -- Steve Ross On Friday, December 18, 2020, 10:02:36 PM CST,

Re: End-of-sentence spacing

Maybe you can look at the . ss request Which sets interword spacing as first argument and the second argument as sentence space Kind regards Wim Stockman Op za 19 dec. 2020 13:36 schreef Oliver Corff : > Hi Dorai, > > the point behind the end-of-source-line rule is simple, and is hidden in >

Re: End-of-sentence spacing

Hi Dorai, the point behind the end-of-source-line rule is simple, and is hidden in many introductory chapters of textbooks on troff and groff: You are not forced (and even less encouraged) to preempt any formatting in your input text. None of your efforts with regard to line length, intended

Re: End-of-sentence spacing

On Sat, 19 Dec 2020, Ulrich Lauther wrote: On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 10:27:01AM +, Dorai Sitaram wrote: groff pretty much forces one to use two spaces after sentence-ending punctuation, unless it's at the end of a source line. In my opinion it is good style to start every sentence on a

Re: End-of-sentence spacing

On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 10:27:01AM +, Dorai Sitaram wrote: > groff pretty much forces one to use two spaces after sentence-ending > punctuation, unless it's at the end of a source line. In my opinion it is good style to start every sentence on a new source line. This is helpful for editing

End-of-sentence spacing

groff pretty much forces one to use two spaces after sentence-ending punctuation, unless it's at the end of a source line. Is there a way to avoid this, so that the space is uniform regardless of whether the ending punctuation occurs mid- or end-line? (I could resign myself to always type 2