Fwd: I'm going to work on integrating install-font.sh into groff

2021-07-20 Thread T. Kurt Bond
Drats. Forgot to cc the groff mailing list. -- Forwarded message - From: T. Kurt Bond Date: Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 3:13 PM Subject: Re: I'm going to work on integrating install-font.sh into groff To: Douglas McIlroy My earlier post to the list about using install-font.sh did it

How to make a lettered list in groff ms (was: troff Memorandum Macros documentation derived from the paper "MM - Memorandum Macros"

2021-07-20 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hello again, James. Naturally I goofed my example, because I was in a hurry. Also, since we're talking about ms now instead of mm, I've updated the subject. At 2021-07-21T00:51:42+1000, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > A question came up on reddit that might act as a tie-breaker for > > you. (!)

Re: troff Memorandum Macros documentation derived from the paper "MM - Memorandum Macros"

2021-07-20 Thread Keith Marshall
On 20/07/2021 15:19, James K. Lowden wrote: > [...snip...] > > A question came up on reddit that might act as a tie-breaker for > you. (!) It was: how to automatically increment a list with letters? > I don't use the style much, but if you want > > 1. foo > a) bar >

Re: troff Memorandum Macros documentation derived from the paper "MM - Memorandum Macros"

2021-07-20 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi, James! At 2021-07-20T10:19:26-0400, James K. Lowden wrote: > I find very little need to use troff requests; most everything I need > is provided by ms. Exceptions are auto-incrementing registers for > numbered lists, and .fzoom to shrink monospace fonts. I do find the > quote macros in ms clu

Re: troff Memorandum Macros documentation derived from the paper "MM - Memorandum Macros"

2021-07-20 Thread James K. Lowden
On Mon, 19 Jul 2021 18:41:16 -0500 Nate Bargmann wrote: > if I would get use out of > either mm or ms for single page letters and some short documents I think the answer to that question might be Yes. I'm a tenderfoot among the troff graybeards here, having written my first troff document in