[groff] Problems redefining macro $c for -me macros

2017-12-02 Thread Stephanie Björk
For quite a bit, I've been trying to redefine the .$c macro for the -me macros. According to the reference manual, the macro package allows the user to redefine how chapters look when they get printed, by redefining that macro. Here's my redefinition. In the original file, I added no comments, b

Re: [groff] Problems redefining macro $c for -me macros

2017-12-03 Thread Stephanie Björk
That seems very reasonable an explanation. Thank you. :) I didn't know that the problem had something to do with EQN's inline equation. It wasn't so obvious, but it makes sense nonetheless. I also find it funny if I ever need to talk about money in dollars: a dollar sign ($) is obviously needed

[groff] A macro package for lists in TROFF

2017-12-04 Thread Stephanie Björk
Hi, So, after having been on the mailing list for a bit, I've found that we are all sharing quite cool things here. Just a day ago, I wrote something quite nice in Troff -- a macro package that provides for something that most macro packages I have so far known lack. I figured also that this is

Re: [groff] A macro package for lists in TROFF

2017-12-05 Thread Stephanie Björk
ess, the concepts should be the same as it is now, ergo it is kind of showable. Stephanie On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Pierre-Jean wrote: > Stephanie Björk wrote: > > > The project is here: https://github.com/katt64/troff-lists (bul.tmac is > the > > beating heart of it al

Re: [groff] A macro package for lists in TROFF

2017-12-05 Thread Stephanie Björk
e a good way of doing them. The package (not quite the > latest version) is in > > http://www.oxytropis.plus.com/groff/markup-1.0.7a.tar.gz > > Denis > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 19:29:34 +0700 > Stephanie Björk wrote: > > > Thank you, Pierre-Jean. > > > > It&#

Re: [groff] A macro package for lists in TROFF

2017-12-06 Thread Stephanie Björk
g languages able to do this, but I do think there are a few like this that I've not heard of yet. On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 6:04 AM, Peter Schaffter wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2017, Stephanie Björk wrote: > > as my macros really use weird, fancy stuff. > > I don't see anything

Re: [groff] A macro package for lists in TROFF

2017-12-06 Thread Stephanie Björk
learning TROFF from classical TROFF, so that kind of gives me a habit. On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 2:07 AM, Stephanie Björk wrote: > > I don't see anything weird or fancy that hasn't been a part of groff > > for at least fifteen years. To what are you referring? I'm

Re: [groff] A macro package for lists in TROFF

2017-12-07 Thread Stephanie Björk
To Ralph, You quoted the following in your email: > Stephanie wrote: > > However, Troff's ability to take values of a numerical register and > > use it as a name to another register (.nr my_\na_\nb) intrigues me > > very much. > > I do not know if that "feature" was an intentional design or an >

[groff] Is it a problem if my TMAC is licensed under 4-clause BSD but relies on Groff?

2017-12-12 Thread Stephanie Björk
According to Wikipedia: In addition, the clause presented a legal problem for those wishing to publish BSD-licensed software which relies upon separate programs using the GNU GPL: the advertising clause is incompatible with the GPL, which does not allow the addition of restrictions beyond those it

Re: [groff] A typo on fsf groff wiki page, and question about releasing

2017-12-29 Thread Stephanie Björk
I think part of the reason why the release for Groff has been so slow and sparse could be because of two things: the patches aren't ``significant'' enough for some degree of ``significant,'' there are not enough maintainers and thus not enough motivation to publicly release or effect anything, this

[groff] How does one recreate the \(bs symbol?

2018-01-09 Thread Stephanie Björk
Sorry if the context is out of the ordinary, but I would like to have some specifications of the \(bs symbol, which does not seem to exist on Groff. I am quite certain that it can be recreated using Troff's drawing primitives, but I can't seem to get it quite right. Perhaps someone has the exact o

Re: [groff] How does one recreate the \(bs symbol?

2018-01-10 Thread Stephanie Björk
Huh? Why does it look so different? The \(bs symbol looks more like a black ball with a white shadow even on the original Troff manual, but the link to Wikipedia looks like a bell in a circle. On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 8:44 PM, Mike Bianchi wrote: > > .char \(bs \X'ps: import ATandTlogo.ps 9 4 1