Re: Soft hyphens

2021-04-03 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi, Peter! At 2021-04-03T12:31:38-0400, Peter Schaffter wrote: > On Sat, Apr 03, 2021, Dave Kemper wrote: > > On 3/28/21, Peter Schaffter wrote: > > > I'm wondering if the interpretation of soft hyphens when .nh is > > > active is correct behaviour. > > > > I don't know the answer to your

Re: Interesting articles

2021-04-03 Thread Larry Kollar
> On Mar 26, 2021, at 4:03 AM, Ulrich Lauther > wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 10:30:57PM -0400, Larry Kollar wrote: >> Sometimes, my Twitter feed coughs up some cool articles, like >> this one: "Performance comparison: counting words in Python, >> Go, C++, C, AWK, Forth, and Rust” >>

Re: Update groff_tmac(5)

2021-04-03 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Sat, Apr 03, 2021, Dave Kemper wrote: > On 3/28/21, Peter Schaffter wrote: > > Mom's been around for almost two decades. She's no longer the new > > kid on the block. Isn't it time this entry be updated? > > This was updated a few weeks ago in commit bbbcafc8 >

Re: Soft hyphens

2021-04-03 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Sat, Apr 03, 2021, Dave Kemper wrote: > On 3/28/21, Peter Schaffter wrote: > > I'm wondering if the interpretation of soft hyphens when .nh is > > active is correct behaviour. > > I don't know the answer to your question, I got an answer from Doug McIlroy. "In pre-Unix roff hyphenation

[bug #60332] Document behaviour of soft hyphens in hyphenation mode 0

2021-04-03 Thread Peter Schaffter
Update of bug #60332 (project groff): Assigned to:None => gbranden ___ Reply to this item at: ___

[bug #60332] Document behaviour of soft hyphens in hyphenation mode 0

2021-04-03 Thread Peter Schaffter
URL: Summary: Document behaviour of soft hyphens in hyphenation mode 0 Project: GNU troff Submitted by: PTPi Submitted on: Sat 03 Apr 2021 04:28:11 PM UTC Category: None

Re: Soft hyphens

2021-04-03 Thread Dave Kemper
On 3/28/21, Peter Schaffter wrote: > I'm wondering if the interpretation of soft hyphens when .nh is > active is correct behaviour. It's counter-intuitive and feels like > a bug. If it is the expected behaviour, we need to amend the info > manual to state that .nh does not disable the

Re: Update groff_tmac(5)

2021-04-03 Thread Dave Kemper
On 3/28/21, Peter Schaffter wrote: > Mom's been around for almost two decades. She's no longer the new > kid on the block. Isn't it time this entry be updated? This was updated a few weeks ago in commit bbbcafc8 (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=bbbcafc8). The description

Re: .ss paragraph-style-footnote example, then and now

2021-04-03 Thread Dave Kemper
Hi Branden, I too need to amend misstatements in my original post. Unfortunately, unlike you, I spotted them after you replied, so I've muddied the discussion with them. Here's what I should have said about the original example: - It shows how to use .ss to insert extra (discardable)

Re: Hi! Do you have a 64 bit version of Groff for windows?

2021-04-03 Thread Heinz-Jürgen Oertel
Am Freitag, 2. April 2021, 23:16:28 CEST schrieb Cool Kiwi: > Hello! I am new to GNU troff and I would like to try it. But, when I > went to download it, I couldn't find a 64 bit version of groff to use. > Do you have 64 bit version (either old or new) of groff to download? > > Also, I see a