second time with complete list of addressees ...
hi branden,
thank you for this background info. really appreciated. I was aware of part of
it
but definitely not all of it.
out of curiosity: if I get this right, presence and usage of the t-command
thus excludes any application of microtypograp
Hi Dave,
At 2022-08-05T18:10:45-0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> > --- a/src/roff/groff/groff.1.man
> > +++ b/src/roff/groff/groff.1.man
> > @@ -1801,7 +1801,7 @@ constructing a pipeline to page the output.
> > .RS
> > .P
> > .EX
> > -groff \-t \-man /usr/share/man/man1/groff.1.man | less \-R
> > +gr
[looping in groff@ again due to a shift in discussion focus to
development]
At 2022-08-09T19:14:25+0200, joerg van den hoff wrote:
> On 09.08.22 17:05, Deri wrote:
> > groff and grops can find the SS file, which gives the widths of the
> > SS glyphs, but grops cannot find the Symbolsl.pfa file bec
On 8/9/22, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Similarly, I avoided demonstrating nroff because this is the groff(1)
> page, and that is the subject of discussion.
Oof, somehow I managed to overlook that. Sorry for the noise.
As I said earlier, we used nroff/troff to produce the Australian Journal of
Management in the 1980s.
More recently — last year in fact — as the Editor I used troff to set the
text for an especially mathematical paper in the Journal and Proceedings of
the Royal Society of New South Wales (Sydney).
On Tuesday, 9 August 2022 20:38:44 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> [looping in groff@ again due to a shift in discussion focus to
> development]
>
> At 2022-08-09T19:14:25+0200, joerg van den hoff wrote:
> It is possible for device or font description files to be incomplete; if
> they are missing
On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 14:06:45 -0500
"G. Branden Robinson" wrote:
> (the "root of all evil" thing), which also got stuffed into
> Donald Knuth's mouth
Knuth did say it. Please see " Structured Programming with go to
Statements" mentioned in "ACM Computing Surveys Vol. 6, No. 4" at
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