On 11.11.20 23:00, Damian McGuckin wrote:
On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, Dorai Sitaram via wrote:
Is there a way to change the text used for the section header
inserted by 'refer' before the accumulated references? By default,
it is "References". Hopefully it isn't hardcoded.
With '-mm', it is
On 05.11.20 21:51, Pierre-Jean Fichet wrote:
Hello Johann,
Johann Höchtl wrote:
Johann Höchtl wrote:
There's no technical reason. And I guess it's a valuable feature
request
I see. I guess the logic is more or less in place as the Sx-macros to
their job nicely?
Yes it is. One easy trick
On 03.11.20 12:59, Pierre-Jean Fichet wrote:
Hello Johann,
Johann Höchtl wrote:
Is there any technical reason implied by troff why Sx - macros work, as
you already described, by building a forward index whereas the TOC
doesn't and therefore has to go to the end, as any other toc in
single
On 04.11.20 19:55, Pierre-Jean Fichet wrote:
Hello Johann,
hello troffers,
General: The toc is interlinked but clicking on a xref-item doesn't
bring me to the item.
It's now fixed and works with both neatpdf and neatpost:
https://github.com/pjfichet/utmac/
Thank you for the effort, I
On 29.10.20 21:04, Pierre-Jean Fichet wrote:
Hello Johann,
Johann Höchtl wrote:
I used the wonderful utmac-macro set on an arbitrary text which is in
the PD. I admit it was more like playing to discover the possibilities
of troff and utmac.
I made some observations I would like to show
On 14.10.20 18:41, Peter Schaffter wrote:
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020, Johann Höchtl wrote:
Groff is certainly feature-rich, stable and polished with
great documentation. But I also value l8n, being able to
input utf8-characters directly into the source or easily
switch fonts. Not to mention PAO
however at the start and I do not thing a postscript re-arrangement of pages is
used.
Op wo 21 okt. 2020 om 21:47 schreef Johann Höchtl
:
On 19.10.20 14:14, Johann Höchtl wrote:
On 15.10.20 16:37, Pierre-Jean Fichet wrote:
To fetch for ideas on how to do this or that, maybe can I also point
On 19.10.20 14:14, Johann Höchtl wrote:
On 15.10.20 16:37, Pierre-Jean Fichet wrote:
To fetch for ideas on how to do this or that, maybe can I also point
to my macros, as they'll work with neatroff too, and implement a lot
of things: https://github.com/pjfichet/utmac/
I installed utmac
On 20.10.20 16:05, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 09:33:02AM -0400, Larry Kollar wrote:
Marc Chantreux wrote:
hello,
- Update Chapter 3 to cover Vim (including gvim)
please don't!
what's nice about reading UTP is to discover the elegance and simplicity
of it all ???
i'm a
On 15.10.20 16:37, Pierre-Jean Fichet wrote:
To fetch for ideas on how to do this or that, maybe can I also point
to my macros, as they'll work with neatroff too, and implement a lot
of things: https://github.com/pjfichet/utmac/
I installed utmac by downloading it and copying all .tmac -
On 14.10.20 18:41, Peter Schaffter wrote:
Also not sure what
you mean by "easily switch fonts." Since '.ft " is as easy as
it gets, I assume you mean something else.
I have been imprecise. By switching fonts I actually meant making fonts
available to groff, which requires fontforge to
Dear Peter,
while I first thought a follow-up question would warrant a separate thread,
now as you mention mom, I feel comfortable not to wander astray.
Of course I discovered mom and wow it looks feature-rich and very polished.
I wonder how big of an effort it would be to make it "portable".
Hi,
I am just a casual dabbler who is somehow fascinated by text processing
I am using neatroff - It seems to be the most actively developed and has
some nice modern features like paragraph-at-once formatting and utf8
support out of the box.
Having said that, it seems that all troff
On 2013-09-03 21:45, Peter Schaffter wrote:
On Sun, Sep 01, 2013, Johann Höchtl wrote:
And mom-specific:
* Does MOM have a macro for page break (or is .bp save?)
Use NEWPAGE. There are a few conditions that mitigate against using
.bp safely all the time.
The Documentation for mom is superb
Dear Groffers,
under
https://github.com/the42/makeindex
you will find a TeX-independed makeindex, announced here and now updated
to upstream:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2012-09/msg00065.html
Using Denis Wilsons wonderful indexing support for markup,
On 2013-09-01 20:31, Johann Höchtl wrote:
Dear Groffers,
The solution works,
https://github.com/the42/makeindex/blob/master/troff/mom/mom-pdf.mom.pdf?raw=true
Forgot to mention, I am using stock groff as of (K)ubuntu 13.04
GNU groff version 1.22.1
which comes with mom bundled and I built
On 12/02/2012 07:40 PM, Clarke Echols wrote:
In a recent email the syntax:
groff foo ...
was used.
It's called Here string or here document and used extensively in
Bash / Perl / Python / Ruby programming. With 'here doc' You can
disguise entire websites in a single perl file or a
On 10/05/2012 03:08 PM, Denis M. Wilson wrote:
On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:10:48 +0200
Johann Höchtl johann.hoec...@gmail.com wrote:
The reason I did it my way is to save ordinary users the pain of
working out sizes for themselves. Given the paper, pointsize and font
family to be used, what
On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 12:23:17 -0400 James K. Lowden
jklow...@schemamania.org wrote:
http://www.oxytropis.plus.com/groff/
Is there a way to specifify different paper sizes but A4 and A5? If not,
I suggest adding at least letter and legal
(I am not US, but afaik those formats are widely used
On 09/13/2012 10:54 PM, Denis M. Wilson wrote:
When designing my index package I found the trickiest part was the
style file. In case it is useful I attach it and the indexing macros
(which would have to be tailored for what package you use).
Wow, that was very good. Unfortunately I am not
I downloaded as of now (2012-09-16, 15:30 UTC) current tarball of groff.
After installing g++, texinfo and bison, .configure meant I am ready to go.
But the build fails with
Warning: line 78: Failed to create groff font 'U-AB' by running afmtodit
.
.
. more of those
.
.
make[2]: *** [DESC]
, this is Kubuntu. After replacing, groff builds without
issues.. Thank you!
I am still working on a more robust solution which will stop the make failing
if the required fonts are not found.
Cheers
Deri
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On 09/09/2012 10:01 PM, (Ted Harding) wrote:
I go with Denis on using makeindex! The standard troff tools for
indexing and bibliography are too limited and inflexible for
serious use, and are very difficult to modify, let alone to extend.
As promised, my report on using indexing with groff
On 09/13/2012 06:56 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
BTW: The patch to mkind.c of makeindex V2.15 is generic and should
permanently be in anyway to make makeindex buildable without the
whole TeX source tree, if KPATHSEA is not required. I'll inform the
current maintainer, maybe he will consider the
Fellow groffers,
what is the prefered method of creating indexes with groff these days?
Mainly I am only aware of
Tools for Printing Indexes
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/128.ps.gz, CSTR #128, J. L. Bentley
and B. W. Kernighan http://troff.org/whoswho.html#bwk, Bell Labs,
October 1986.
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