Re: deroff availability

2022-08-17 Thread Damian McGuckin
On Wed, 17 Aug 2022, DJ Chase wrote: I have never refered to the line number in over 30 years of using diction. Interesting. What do you do for really long files that aren?t split into chapters? Split them into chapters. How do you handle a program with 1 lines. Hopefully you split

Re: deroff availability

2022-08-17 Thread DJ Chase
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 line-numbers. > > I have

Re: deroff availability

2022-08-17 Thread DJ Chase
On Wed Aug 17, 2022 at 1:16 AM EDT, Laurens Kils-Hütten wrote: > The Arch Linux User Repository (AUR) is a valuable source here. > > I found https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/deroff > which in turn points to http://www.moria.de/~michael/deroff/ > et voilà! Thank you. I’ll try compiling this

Re: deroff availability

2022-08-17 Thread Damian McGuckin
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 line-numbers. I have never refered to the line number in over 30 years of using diction. Stay

Re: deroff availability

2022-08-17 Thread DJ Chase
On Wed Aug 17, 2022 at 1:27 AM EDT, Jeff Conrad wrote: > Oops ... > > Scratch what I was going to suggest ... > > I only asked because you mentioned that roff2text(1) does a poor job of > formatting. Reading more carefully, formatting wasn’t your objective. I suppose I could have been clearer

Re: deroff availability

2022-08-16 Thread Laurens Kils-Hütten
Am Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 03:47:31AM + schrieb DJ Chase: > Does anyone know how I could get a copy of deroff(1) on my machine > (Fedora Linux 36)? It’s not in the repos — or seemingly any Linux repos > for that matter — and I can’t seem to find the source for it. The Arch Linux User Repository