Re: Observations using utmac

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 is

Re: Observations using utmac

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

Re: Observations using utmac

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

Re: Observations using utmac

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/ Cheers, Pierre-Jean.

Re: Observations using utmac

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-pass g/troff macros I am aware of?

Re: Observations using utmac

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 /

Re: Observations using utmac

Hi Pierre, What I meant was that PDF features like hyperlinks and navigation menus can be achieved using a standard PostScript interpreter—you don't need a dedicated *roff-to-PDF converter if your Troff of choice already supports high-quality PostScript output. Moreover, the PostScript code I

Re: Observations using utmac

Hello John, Thank you for the help. John Gardner wrote: > > It will work when using neatpost and ps2pdf. Neatpdf is great, but as > > far as I know, it does not support pdf links yet. > > It doesn't have to. You can embed PDF-specific features by using PostScript's > pdfmark operator >

Re: Observations using utmac

> > It will work when using neatpost and ps2pdf. Neatpdf is great, but as > far as I know, it does not support pdf links yet. It doesn't have to. You can embed PDF-specific features by using PostScript's pdfmark operator

Re: Observations using utmac

> For widows within paragraphs, the .ne must appear close > to the widow. If your input lines are not too long, this > can be accomplished by an ugly trick: insert .ne 2 before > every input line. If you want to get fancy the trick could > be automated with a self-renewing input-line trap.

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