<hoh...@arcor.de> wrote: |Joh-Tob Schäg <johtob...@gmail.com> wrote (Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:32:47 |+0100): |> i seached for an alternative to latex and found groff. Sadly i found |> no IRC or something where i could ask directly. |> But before i invest time in groff or some macro system, i wanted to |> know if it fits my needs. |> These are: |> -support for ä,ü,ö,Ä... |\[:a],\[:u],\[:o],\[:A],.. |use preconv in order to translate from an encoding as utf8 to the groff |representation above; -D, -K, -k switches to groff are equivalent |Have a look at 'man groff' and 'man grof_char' for the chars.
I always use LATIN1 and use the umlauts etc. directly, as in ich m<F6>chte mich hiermit sehr herzlich f<FC>r die Wendung in unserem Rechtsstreit bedanken! (This is via less(1) in an UTF-8 environment though.) |> -supporting word division for german (possible compound) words |watch out for hyphenation requests: |.hy, .hla and .hpf E.g. this works pretty good for me, outsourced in its own file, .\"@ s-hw_german.tmac: hyphenation add-ons .hla de .hpf hyphen.de .hpfa hyphenex.de . .hw An-we-sen-heits-nach-weis ..list that increased over the years.. .hw Ver-hand-lungs-ter-min .hw zu-min-dest to be sourced into other documents via .mso s-hw_german.tmac |> -supports A4 paper format |Most tricky because you have to watch out at every transformation Yeeees. |step: in groff, from groff to PS and from PS to pdf. For custom sizes, |this is a worst case, you might need to know ghostscript commandlines. I have a shell alias for A4 (even with my own macros..) s-groff 'groff -dpaper=a4 -P-pa4' | Be patiently in learning. Attempting to gain quick success in running Ciao, --steffen
