Yes, "sudo install-font.sh " is simpler, as long as you know how
to answer the prompts! I should have started there in my explanation. I
guess the fact that I run the script potentially multiple times on multiple
different computers makes my usage more complicated.
I'll have to read the source o
Kurt, thanks for saving me having to explain why groff doesn't know
anything about install-font.sh and fontforge.
Doug, I hope you see this.
On Sat, Jul 17, 2021, T. Kurt Bond wrote:
> In the meantime, if you want to install fonts in OpenType or TrueType
> formats for use with devps and devpdf, i
Drats, I forgot to hit reply all, and my reply didn't get sent to the groff
mailing list. Sigh. Here you go.
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From: T. Kurt Bond
Date: Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 12:08 AM
Subject: Re: Would it be reasonable to list the fonts that are available by
default in groff
>> I'm generally an intrepid groff user, but not when it comes to font
>> installation. Anything that demystifies the process will win my applause.
> Despite the vagaries of directory locations, once you understand what
> install-font.sh wants and fontforge is installed install-font.sh is
> relati
On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 14:48:03 -0400,
"G. Branden Robinson" wrote:
> Kurt, could you file some Savannah bugs about this and the previous
> issue you raised, about font repertoires? My to-do list grows faster
> than I can shrink it, but I do burn items off occasionally.
* bug #60929: Improve docume
Thanks, Peter!
My printer, a Brother HL-5240, takes input from the manual tray and like
you I insert the envelope and then print. Typically, I feed the
envelope in with the short side at the return address in first. To be
honest, I'm not entirely sure if that is portrait or landscape
orientation
On Fri, Jul 16, 2021, James K. Lowden wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 12:44:04 -0400
> Peter Schaffter wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > > As I see it, with groff I can easily create files for addresses I
> > > use often and should be able to code a script that accepts thos
That sounds like a very useful document! I've added a reminder to my
calendar to remind me to remind you. :)
On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 5:14 PM Damian McGuckin wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2021, T. Kurt Bond wrote:
>
> > I think this is useful since it provides a more "user guide" approach to
> > learn
On Fri, 16 Jul 2021, T. Kurt Bond wrote:
I think this is useful since it provides a more "user guide" approach to
learning MM; groff_mm(7), while an admirable and complete reference is
not easy to learn MM from, in my opinion.
Once I finish with the current crop of work on my plate, I will up
On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 12:44:04 -0400
Peter Schaffter wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > As I see it, with groff I can easily create files for addresses I
> > use often and should be able to code a script that accepts those
> > one-off addresses.
>
> I use this strategy with th
On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 04:48:03 +1000
"G. Branden Robinson" wrote:
> XN is not a part of any _ms_ implementation I'm aware of, not even
> groff's. It does not appear in 4.2BSD ms or Version 10 Research Unix,
> either.
>
> In the groff system, XN is defined in spdf.tmac
Why not just fold spdf.tmac
Ingo Schwarze writes:
>
> And yes, i did use that, together with a daisy wheel printer, to
> produce graphics output in 1982. The "." character on the daisy
> wheel wore off rather quickly.
That's why they made special daisy wheels with a metal "." rather than plastic
like all the other charact
Hi Robert,
Robert Goulding wrote on Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 09:56:09AM -0600:
> I once managed to compile and run the source code to gremlin, the graphic
> frontend for producing grn files. But it was quite primitive, and kind of
> useless, so I didn't keep it.
That remark just made me put up some
Nate --
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> As I see it, with groff I can easily create files for addresses I
> use often and should be able to code a script that accepts those
> one-off addresses.
I use this strategy with the mom macros. Here's the .mom template
file:
--envelope t
I once managed to compile and run the source code to gremlin, the graphic
frontend for producing grn files. But it was quite primitive, and kind of
useless, so I didn't keep it.
Robert Goulding
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On Fri, Jul 16, 2021, 9:53 AM Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Wim,
>
> Wim Stoc
Hi Wim,
Wim Stockman wrote on Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 10:48:15PM +0200:
> Hi , I was looking into the groff doc dir and found this old file format.
> the Gremlin file format for graphics.
> But even on google I cannot find a lot of information about it.
> Does someone have some info on it ,some docu
The paper "MM - Memorandum Macros" by D. W. Smith, J. R. Mashey, E. C.
Pariser, and N. W. Smith, AT&T Bell Laboratories, June 1980 does not seem
to be available in PDF or Postscript on the Internet with a license that
allows legal copying. However, the Documenter's Workbench version of the
documen
When I followed the first reddit link a few days ago for the first time,
I read a few contributions and thought that it could be a challenge to
reconcile the discrepancy between the internalized knowledge about
things related to the "black art" (typesetting, that is) generally
prevalent in this co
Den 2021-07-16 kl. 03:50 skrev Nate Bargmann:
> I learned there is a Groff Reddit as well:
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/groff/
>
> It seems to have quite a bit of activity which is fantastic.
I was just about to write this. I am relatively active on /r/groff (as
user quote-only-eee) and it would
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