Re: Questions concerning hyphenation patterns for non-Latin languages, e.g. Russian

2023-04-25 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Oliver, At 2023-04-25T20:02:00+0200, Oliver Corff wrote: > Yes, KOI8-R has the Cyrillic uppercase in 0xE0..0xFF, lowercase in > 0xC0..0xDF; in the control code area, there are no letters in the > human sense of the word. I had a look at the current groff > documentation referenced by your

Re: A new ignoramus question about user-installed fonts

2023-04-25 Thread John Gardner
Hi Oliver, > message by GhostScript: Can't embed the complete font DFSongStd as it is > too large, embedding a subset > PostScript provides a dedicated resource-type for exactly this: a CID-keyed font (PLRM ยง 5.11

Re: groff-1.23.0.rc4 - no ./configure?

2023-04-25 Thread Carlos
On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 08:15:06AM +0200, Oliver Corff wrote: > Hi Carlos, > > thank you for directing me to the documentation buried in the two > INSTALL.* files. > > May I suggest that the information along the way of obtaining the > tarball may be augmented? > > My steps were: > > 1. I went

Re: groff-1.23.0.rc4 - no ./configure?

2023-04-25 Thread Bertrand Garrigues
Hi Oliver, On mar., avril 25 2023 at 08:15:06 , Oliver Corff wrote: > thank you for directing me to the documentation buried in the two > INSTALL.* files. > > May I suggest that the information along the way of obtaining the > tarball may be augmented? I've just seen that Branden has added some

Re: [mom] Extraneous empty line that starts a new page

2023-04-25 Thread Frederic Chartier
On 2023-04-24 21:59 -0400, Peter Schaffter wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2023, Frederic Chartier wrote: > > I'm running groff 1.22.3, by the way. It's been patched but not > > since 2016 so if it's bugs I'm seeing, they're not new. > > Can you check whether you're using the latest version of mom >

tbl numeric overflow

2023-04-25 Thread Peter Schaffter
Branden -- This thread picks up from Re: [mom] Extraneous empty line that starts a new page I've built and installed 1.23.0.rc4.26-3aa8c and continue to get numeric overflow errors in documents that use tbl, starting with the second and continuing for all subsequent tables. The output is

Re: [mom] Extraneous empty line that starts a new page

2023-04-25 Thread Peter Schaffter
Frederic -- At 2023-04-24T01:37:00+0200, Frederic Chartier wrote: > I've stumbled on another problem with -mom. There is a table at > the bottom of a page. After the table, something inserts what > behaves like a line feed and Groff warns that > > [mom]: '2023-04-24.mom', macro TE, line 61:

Re: Questions concerning hyphenation patterns for non-Latin languages, e.g. Russian

2023-04-25 Thread Oliver Corff
Hi Branden, thank you very much for the detailed answer. Yes, KOI8-R has the Cyrillic uppercase in 0xE0..0xFF, lowercase in 0xC0..0xDF; in the control code area, there are no letters in the human sense of the word. I had a look at the current groff documentation referenced by your footnote, and

Re: Questions concerning hyphenation patterns for non-Latin languages, e.g. Russian

2023-04-25 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Oliver, At 2023-04-25T16:25:49+0200, Oliver Corff wrote: > In the meantime, I had a look at that Russian hyphenation file, and to > my relief, the structure of the groff hyphenation pattern files is > that of TeX hyphenation pattern files, which I have worked on before. Yup. They were born

[groff] 02/02: doc/groff.texi: Update re: encodings, Euro glyph.

2023-04-25 Thread G. Branden Robinson
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master in repository groff. commit 48d17492d23ba99f7c22716f3979dd38c95557fc Author: G. Branden Robinson AuthorDate: Tue Apr 25 10:57:40 2023 -0500 doc/groff.texi: Update re: encodings, Euro glyph. The Euro glyph is important beyond Europe.

[groff] 01/02: src/roff/troff/TODO: Remove implemented item.

2023-04-25 Thread G. Branden Robinson
gbranden pushed a commit to branch master in repository groff. commit 5a025e58982785ee3eff6c2076b74a04ab31ebe5 Author: G. Branden Robinson AuthorDate: Tue Apr 25 00:37:57 2023 -0500 src/roff/troff/TODO: Remove implemented item. Implemented in commit 41d05cbfac, 4 July 2019. ---

Re: > Re: [mom] Extraneous empty line that starts a new page

2023-04-25 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-04-25T10:05:14-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote: > > $ ./build/test-groff -Tutf8 > .> nr a 3c > > .nr b 3cm > > .tm a=\na, b=\nb > > a=283, b=283 > > > This suggests that one could get away with "3in" as well. Yeesh. > > Not sure how I feel about that. I think I'd prefer to have Yet > >

[bug #60955] [troff] reject "f" scaling unit in unreasonable contexts

2023-04-25 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Update of bug #60955 (project groff): Summary: [troff] reject "f" scaling indicator in unreasonable contexts => [troff] reject "f" scaling unit in unreasonable contexts ___ Follow-up Comment #1: We're migrating to the

[bug #62776] [troff] want "style" warning category for self-deceptive inputs

2023-04-25 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Update of bug #62776 (project groff): Summary: [troff] add optional diagnostic for sentences ending mid-input line => [troff] want "style" warning category for self-deceptive inputs ___ Follow-up Comment #4: I can't

Re: Questions concerning hyphenation patterns for non-Latin languages, e.g. Russian

2023-04-25 Thread Oliver Corff
Hi Branden, Now I am considering modifying an existing TeX hyphenation file for groff use. Wait! Before you do that, check out the post-1.23.0 branch in groff Git, where this has already been done! https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/?h=post-1.23.0 In the meantime, I had a look at

> Re: [mom] Extraneous empty line that starts a new page

2023-04-25 Thread Douglas McIlroy
> $ ./build/test-groff -Tutf8 .> nr a 3c > .nr b 3cm > .tm a=\na, b=\nb > a=283, b=283 > This suggests that one could get away with "3in" as well. Yeesh. Not > sure how I feel about that. I think I'd prefer to have Yet Another > Warning Diagnostic for non-pristine input syntax. Beware of the

Re: groff-1.23.0.rc4 - no ./configure?

2023-04-25 Thread Carlos
On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 08:15:06AM +0200, Oliver Corff wrote: > Hi Carlos, > > thank you for directing me to the documentation buried in the two > INSTALL.* files. > > May I suggest that the information along the way of obtaining the > tarball may be augmented? > > My steps were: > > 1. I went

Re: groff-1.23.0.rc4 - no ./configure?

2023-04-25 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Since cgit's list is subscribers-only, I've CCd its maintainer. Also CCd cgit-pink (I hope this one is not subscriber-only). On 4/25/23 01:51, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2023-04-25T01:35:03+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >>> Curious way to put it. I wondered something along those lines >>>

Re: Questions concerning hyphenation patterns for non-Latin languages, e.g. Russian

2023-04-25 Thread Oliver Corff
How embarrassing. I ignored the word "post-". Sorry, Oliver. On 25/04/2023 11:26, Oliver Corff wrote: Hi Branden, On 24/04/2023 03:25, G. Branden Robinson wrote: At 2023-04-23T22:05:42+0200, Oliver Corff wrote: Now I am considering modifying an existing TeX hyphenation file for groff

Re: Questions concerning hyphenation patterns for non-Latin languages, e.g. Russian

2023-04-25 Thread Oliver Corff
Hi Branden, On 24/04/2023 03:25, G. Branden Robinson wrote: At 2023-04-23T22:05:42+0200, Oliver Corff wrote: Now I am considering modifying an existing TeX hyphenation file for groff use. Wait! Before you do that, check out the post-1.23.0 branch in groff Git, where this has already been

Re: groff-1.23.0.rc4 - no ./configure?

2023-04-25 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Oliver, I've reported our desire for a switch to shut off these un-useful cgit-generated archive links to the GNU Savannah admins. https://savannah.nongnu.org/support/?110873 I've also updated the groff download instructions on its home page to try to clarify matters, and add a link to the

Re: groff-1.23.0.rc4 - no ./configure?

2023-04-25 Thread Oliver Corff
Hi Carlos, thank you for directing me to the documentation buried in the two INSTALL.* files. May I suggest that the information along the way of obtaining the tarball may be augmented? My steps were: 1. I went to https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/#downloading There the text reads: The