Re: using groff/troff in producing academic journals

On Sat Aug 13, 2022 at 4:25 PM EDT, James K. Lowden wrote: > On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 12:31:51 +1000 (AEST) > Damian McGuckin wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Aug 2022, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > I emailed ra...@inputplus.co.uk who owns troff.org to see if he > > > wanted to host papers. troff.org looks pretty

Re: One Page Dungeon Layout in groff?

So, I learned quite a bit today, thanks for the pointer to the archives. Here's my proof of concept: https://ttm.sh/qhr.png .\" Macros to typeset One Page Dungeons .\" in groff .\" .de opdMap\" start with the map .br .mk a \" Mark current position .PSPIC -L \\$1 4i \" insert

Re: Using tbl(1) for structure definitions

At 2022-08-13T16:26:43-0400, James K. Lowden wrote: > Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > The reason is not that mandoc tbl(7) to HTML conversion is bad but > > that a structure display *is not tabular data*. > > Ingo's point is irrefutable. Oh yeah? Prove it! ;-) > The goal of better output for

Re: Using tbl(1) for structure definitions

On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 17:41:40 +0200 Ingo Schwarze wrote: > The reason is not that mandoc tbl(7) to HTML conversion is bad but > that a structure display *is not tabular data*. Ingo's point is irrefutable. Whenever a technology is used toward an unintended end, problems inevitably arise. (I

Re: using groff/troff in producing academic journals

On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 12:31:51 +1000 (AEST) Damian McGuckin wrote: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2022, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > I emailed ra...@inputplus.co.uk who owns troff.org to see if he > > wanted to host papers. troff.org looks pretty dead so we shall > > see. If he is still there, that would be a

Re: *roff `\~` support (was: [PATCH 4/6] xattr.7: wfix)

On Fri Aug 12, 2022 at 6:10 PM EDT, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Ingo, > > At 2022-08-12T16:30:01+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > G. Branden Robinson wrote on Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 03:17:14PM -0500: > > > At 2022-08-11T14:48:51+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > >> The former is portable and the

Re: mom problem

This post is for Ulrich Lauther. An off-list reply I sent came back to me with SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection: 554 IP=66.96.187.3 - A problem occurred. (Ask your postmaster for help or to contact tosa@rx +.t-online.de to clarify.) Apologies for cluttering the

Re: One Page Dungeon Layout in groff?

Am Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 11:11:07AM +0100 schrieb Ralph Corderoy: > Laurens wants to use an image for the map. I think he just wants to > flow text around a top-left image on a page. Exactly, thanks Ralph, I'm sure there is a proper name for this kind of layout ... > It's popped up before. >

Re: One Page Dungeon Layout in groff?

Hi John, > > | dungeon. Basically it's a| > > | page, with one top-left | > > | aligned image and text | > > | floating around the image. | > > This is what pic(1) > is for: Laurens wants to use an image for the map. I think

Re: One Page Dungeon Layout in groff?

This is what pic(1) is for: # Long version $ pic < dungeon.roff | troff -Tpdf | gropdf > map.pdf # Concise version (recommended) $ groff -p -Tpdf dungeon.roff > map.pdf If you're new to pic(1), there's a browser-friendly (albeit limited)

One Page Dungeon Layout in groff?

Hello dungeon delving GNU people, I hope it's fine to write a lengthy request like the following as a first post to this list. If not, please be so kind and advise me, where I should have asked instead. That said, here goes my question: Yesterday I once more discoverered, how ridiculously fast