” is pronounced “troff” until someone in the know tells
them.
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“device”?* I think we should avoid changing file suffixes as
much as possible, given that the *roff + macros suffixes are already out
of hand.
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* We could also abandon the whole “‘nroff’ is too hard to say because
god fo
ostScript, ASCII text
Wouldn’t “.ditroff” be more appropriate?
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etails.
Yes that was the problem. For some reason, I had redefined TITLE to
something else in my macro sheet. Thank you
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of the document.
I’m happy to provide files if needed, but it’s actually my resume, so I
figured I’d hold off unless someone needed it.
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lock filesystem
> based on a device'.
I’ve seen (and personally use) en-dashes like this, but only when there
is also a hyphen. In this usage, the en-dash is basically just a longer
hyphen. Example:
block-device–based (block-device\[en]based)
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it offers good support for those.
> I unfortunately cannot testify, too dumb a western.
JetBrains Mono / JetBrains Mono NL has great Unicode support and is very
readable. DejaVu Sans Mono, Source Code Pro, and Fira Code are also
popular. If you want more of an ASCII look, try Nimbus Mono or
Courier/Co
On Wed Aug 17, 2022 at 7:44 AM EDT, Damian McGuckin wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2022, DJ Chase wrote:
>
> > It works for style, but it?s really a problem with diction. Diction
> > outputs line numbers of problematic sentences, which obviously don?t
> > corrispond to the source
l try compiling this later. If it works, I’ll try
packaging it for Fedora in case other users have the same problem.
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works for style, but it’s really a problem with diction. Diction
outputs line numbers of problematic sentences, which obviously don’t
corrispond to the source line-numbers.
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(poorly) formats the text.
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On Sun Aug 14, 2022 at 6:35 PM EDT, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2022-08-14T14:49:10+0000, DJ Chase wrote:
> > On Sun Aug 14, 2022 at 9:56 AM EDT, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> > > DJ Chase wrote on Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 05:27:34PM +:
> > >
> > > > Have we e
On Sun Aug 14, 2022 at 12:32 PM EDT, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On 8/14/22 16:49, DJ Chase wrote:
> > On Sun Aug 14, 2022 at 9:56 AM EDT, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> >> You appear to massively overrate the importance end-users
> >> typically attribute to standardizatio
On Sun Aug 14, 2022 at 9:56 AM EDT, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi,
>
> DJ Chase wrote on Sat, Aug 13, 2022 at 05:27:34PM +:
>
> > Have we ever considered a de jure *roff standard?
>
> No, i think that would be pure madness given the amount of working
> time available
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/4656.4658
• “A Graphics Typesetting Language”
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800209.806460
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more users & use cases because existing
users could count on systems supporting certain features, so
they could use *roff in more situations, which would lead to
more exposure.
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PS: It’s ridiculous that *roff isn’t part of POSIX when it was Unix’s
killer feature.
On Tue Aug 2, 2022 at 12:19 PM EDT, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> On 8/2/22 17:51, DJ Chase wrote:
> > You could swap mandoc’s stderr and stdout, then filter it with sed and
> > redirect sed to stderr:
> >
> > mandoc -W 3>&2 2>&1 1>&3 | sed '
/null
# pass where we care about mandoc’s errors
mandoc -W 2>&1 >/dev/null | sed '/reg/ex/d' >&2
(https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13299317/)
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d operators should be in roman. Since Greek
letters are frequently constants (π) or operators (Σ) it makes sense to
default to roman and specify italics when needed.
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macro set on top of MOM —
meaning I still wouldn’t /need/ to consult the Groff documentation (not
that I wouldn’t consult it anyway).
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through ps2pdf.This will ensure all fonts are embedded
> and that they have
> been subsetted to save space.
It will also allow links in the table of contents.
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On Sun Jul 24, 2022 at 12:11 PM EDT, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2022-07-24T15:45:46+0000, DJ Chase wrote:
> > On Sun Jul 24, 2022 at 8:06 AM EDT, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > At 2022-07-24T03:17:44+, DJ Chase wrote:
> > > > I’ve never read the Texinfo m
On Sun Jul 24, 2022 at 4:57 PM EDT, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 08:42:32PM +0000, DJ Chase wrote:
> > 1. People might need to read the documentation for a format’s tools
> > before they can read files in that format (this isn’t the case for
> >
is also documentation written in *roff
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On Sun Jul 24, 2022 at 2:02 PM EDT, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2022-07-24T17:49:56+0000, DJ Chase wrote:
> > On Sun Jul 24, 2022 at 12:11 PM EDT, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > At 2022-07-24T15:45:46+, DJ Chase wrote:
> > > > Good luck; It’s out of prin
On Sun Jul 24, 2022 at 12:11 PM EDT, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2022-07-24T15:45:46+0000, DJ Chase wrote:
> > I just read some of it. I wish I read it when it felt like I was
> > fighting with the typesetter — it’s very helpful.
>
> I should correct myself. I've onl
On Sun Jul 24, 2022 at 8:06 AM EDT, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2022-07-24T03:17:44+0000, DJ Chase wrote:
> > On Sat Jul 23, 2022 at 10:08 PM EDT, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > I don't think the lack of availability of troff source mattered much
> > > since grof
ed with troff to eventually find MOM (which I
now love).
[1]: https://archive.org/details/unixforpeoplemod00birn
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[2]: https://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/sam/sam.html
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side effect.
What about "input escape", possibly with a comparing it to the intended
purpose of the ASCII escape character?
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