Re: Changing header/footer font in mm

2024-04-18 Thread Thomas Dupond
Le 2024-04-18 à 07:11, Jan Eden a écrit : Hi, there is probably a really simple solution to this, but I cannot find it in the docs. When selecting a default font in a mm document like this – .nr N 1 .fam H . .TL Title .AU "Author" .MT 4 . .H 1 "First Heading" .P Some text. – all text is set in

Re: Changing header/footer font in mm

2024-04-18 Thread Damian McGuckin
On Thu, 18 Apr 2024, Thomas Dupond wrote: You can add .fp 1 HR after .fam H, it will do the trick. Although I have to admit I would have expected .fam H to be enough to also change header/footer font. Headers are, I think, processed is a different environment to main text. It needs somebody

gropdf(1)'s 'Font installation' section is opaque to me

2024-04-18 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi, I find the following section very opaque. Font installation The following is a step‐by‐step font installation guide for gropdf. • Convert your font to something groff understands. This is a PostScript Type 1 font in PFA or PFB format, together with an

Re: gropdf(1)'s 'Font installation' section is opaque to me

2024-04-18 Thread Jan Eden
On 2024-04-18 18:00, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi, > > I find the following section very opaque. > > Font installation > The following is a step‐by‐step font installation guide for > gropdf. > > • Convert your font to something groff understands. This is a >

Re: Incorrect list item spacing after pagebreak

2024-04-18 Thread Peter Schaffter
Jan -- On Thu, Apr 18, 2024, Jan Eden wrote: > if a list with spaced, single-line items (.ITEM 0.25v) continues across > a pagebreak in a mom document, the space between the first and the > second item on the new page is not correct Glad you caught this. It will be fixed it the next mom release.

Re: gropdf(1)'s 'Font installation' section is opaque to me

2024-04-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Alex, At 2024-04-18T18:00:09+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi, > > I find the following section very opaque. > > Font installation > The following is a step‐by‐step font installation guide for > gropdf. > > • Convert your font to something groff understands. Thi

Re: Changing header/footer font in mm

2024-04-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Jan, At 2024-04-18T07:11:44+0200, Jan Eden wrote: > there is probably a really simple solution to this, Not exactly. At the time the mm(7) macro package was developed by the Unix Support Group (possibly an anachronistic name selection on my part), the notion of a "font family" was not represe

Re: Changing header/footer font in mm

2024-04-18 Thread Damian McGuckin
The original MM was done by John Mashey and D.W. Smith from Bell Labs at Piscataway. They worked on the Programmers Workbench UNIX variant at Bell Labs. Doug can enlighten you on where that fells into the overall Bell Labs structure. - Damian

Re: Changing header/footer font in mm

2024-04-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Damian, At 2024-04-19T07:06:26+1000, Damian McGuckin wrote: > The original MM was done by John Mashey and D.W. Smith from Bell Labs > at Piscataway. They worked on the Programmers Workbench UNIX variant > at Bell Labs. Doug can enlighten you on where that fells into the > overall Bell Labs stru

Re: gropdf(1)'s 'Font installation' section is opaque to me

2024-04-18 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Branden, On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 02:03:50PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Alex, > > At 2024-04-18T18:00:09+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I find the following section very opaque. > > > > Font installation > > The following is a step‐by‐step font installati

Re: Changing header/footer font in mm

2024-04-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[self-follow-up] At 2024-04-18T14:48:02-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > In my experiment (attached): > > .EH "''even header''" > .OH "''odd header''" > .EF "''even footer''" > .OF "''odd footer''" As usual, I forgot the attachment. Regards, Branden .PH "'\F[P]Smith'page %

Re: the Courier font family and nroff history

2024-04-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[self-follow-up] At 2024-04-18T16:52:49-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > I vaguely recollect that this was solved by putting UARTs with > (bigger) buffers on the motherboard. ...or on a third-party serial card... > And then made more of its own. Hitching their wagon to UTF-16 for > character

A primer on font installation for groff (was: gropdf(1)'s 'Font installation' section is opaque to me)

2024-04-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Alex, At 2024-04-19T00:29:37+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > While the above is interesting, I've already read similar explanations > from you in related threads. However, I still have no clue of how to > drop TINOR from the Linux man-pages repo and generate it from > something coming from a

Re: Re: Changing header/footer font in mm

2024-04-18 Thread Jan Eden
Hi Branden, On 2024-04-18 14:47, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Jan, > > At 2024-04-18T07:11:44+0200, Jan Eden wrote: > > there is probably a really simple solution to this, > > Not exactly. At the time the mm(7) macro package was developed by the > Unix Support Group (possibly an anachronist

Re: Re: Incorrect list item spacing after pagebreak

2024-04-18 Thread Jan Eden
Hi Peter, On 2024-04-18 13:42, Peter Schaffter wrote: > Jan -- > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2024, Jan Eden wrote: > > if a list with spaced, single-line items (.ITEM 0.25v) continues across > > a pagebreak in a mom document, the space between the first and the > > second item on the new page is not corre

Re: Incorrect list item spacing after pagebreak

2024-04-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-04-19T04:20:18+0200, Jan Eden wrote: > Thanks! I promise not to flood groff@gnu.org with more .LIST-related > posts. I think you're fine. Solidly on topic, especially contrasted with James Lowden and me swapping x86 non-Unix horror stories... :P Regards, Branden signature.asc Descripti

Re: A primer on font installation for groff (was: gropdf(1)'s 'Font installation' section is opaque to me)

2024-04-18 Thread Jan Eden
Hi Alejandro, On 2024-04-18 20:33, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Alex, > > At 2024-04-19T00:29:37+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > While the above is interesting, I've already read similar explanations > > from you in related threads. However, I still have no clue of how to > > drop TINOR f