[mom] Page header on first page

2023-04-22 Thread Frederic Chartier
Hello ladies and gents. I'm trying to convince mom to give me a page header on every page, including the first. In desperation, I've even tried .HEADER_ON_FIRST_PAGE but she's having none of it. Can it be done ? I don't need or want a document header, if that matters, so .DOCHEADER OFF. Thanks in

Re: [mom] Page header on first page

2023-04-22 Thread Frederic Chartier
On 2023-04-22 16:22 -0400, Peter Schaffter wrote: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2023, Frederic Chartier wrote: > > I'm trying to convince mom to give me a page header on every > > page, including the first. > > With the docheader turned off, insert the macro .HEADER immediately &g

[mom] Extraneous empty line that starts a new page

2023-04-23 Thread Frederic Chartier
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: Insufficient room for label, caption, and/or source after

Re: Terminal problem? man formatting problem?

2023-04-24 Thread Frederic Chartier
On 2023-04-24 03:49 +0200, Oliver Corff wrote: > I cannot use xterm, uxterm and Eterm on my system because of the high > screen resolution; those terminal windows appear as tiny stamps which do > not accept the Ctrl-+ resizing command. With XTerm, the font can be set in three ways that I know of.

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

2023-04-24 Thread Frederic Chartier
On 2023-04-24 14:55 -0400, Peter Schaffter wrote: > I've never seen this behaviour before. It's been a while since I > needed tbl(1) in a mom document so I'm thinking it crept in during > one of the past year's bazillion commits. Most likely something to > do with tbl(1) or with gropdf(1). At a

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

[mom] R_MARGIN ignored

2023-04-27 Thread Frederic Chartier
I'm having trouble controlling the margins with -mom, especially the right one. Consider this input : .PAPER A4 .PRINTSTYLE TYPESET .L_MARGIN 1c .R_MARGIN 1c .DOCHEADER OFF .FOOTERS .FOOTER_ON_FIRST_PAGE .START .PP Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text. Some text. Some t

Re: [mom] R_MARGIN ignored

2023-04-28 Thread Frederic Chartier
On 2023-04-27 21:18 -0400, Peter Schaffter wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2023, Frederic Chartier wrote: > > I'm having trouble controlling the margins with -mom... L_MARGIN > > is honoured but R_MARGIN is ignored. I must be doing something > > wrong, but what ? > >

[tbl] Setting the widths of the columns

2023-04-28 Thread Frederic Chartier
Until now, my dealings with tbl(1) have been infrequent, casual and pleasant. This time, I need actual control over the widths of the columns. Specifically, I want column 1 to be exactly as wide as its contents requires, columns 3 and 4 to have specific (and different) widths and column 2 to take u

Re: [tbl] Setting the widths of the columns

2023-04-29 Thread Frederic Chartier
On 2023-04-28 16:39 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2023-04-28T23:18:34+0200, Frederic Chartier wrote: > > Specifically, I want column 1 to be exactly as wide as its > > contents requires, columns 3 and 4 to have specific (and > > different) widths and column 2 to

[tbl] Line wrapping (Was: Setting the widths of the columns)

2023-04-29 Thread Frederic Chartier
On 2023-04-28 16:39 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Per tbl(1) from groff 1.23.0: > [...] > Ordinarily, a table entry is typeset rigidly. It is not filled, > broken, hyphenated, adjusted, or populated with additional inter??? > sentence space. This sentence was added in version

Re: [TUHS] Any reason the removal/renaming of read-only registers should be permitted?

2023-05-03 Thread Frederic Chartier
On 2023-05-03 09:29 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2023-05-03T09:07:03-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote: > > > rationale for allowing removal of read-only registers > > [includes :] > > > > It simplifies documentation > > This, I would quibble with. I feel morally compelled to document this >

Re: groff now undoing .ad settings after .IP

2024-03-18 Thread Frederic Chartier via
On 2024-03-17 15:52 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > A. GNU roff and Sun troff are, historically, heavyweights in terms of > users served. Apparently, man page users on these systems have been > accepting of adjustment ("full justification") for decades. Perhaps "suffering" would be

Re: [TUHS] Re: A fuzzy awk. (Was: The 'usage: ...' message.)

2024-05-28 Thread Frederic Chartier via
On 2024-05-20 09:00 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > For grins, and for a data point from elsewhere in GNU-land, GNU troff is > pretty robust to this sort of thing. Much as I might like to boast of > having improved it in this area, it appears to have already come with > iron long johns courte