[Groff] pic: new box attribute - slanted

2005-03-22 Thread Heinz-Jürgen Oertel
Hello, to improve a bit the look of pic generated pictures in software documentation I like to have an additional attribute for boxes. With slanted boxes e 3dimensional look should be performed. To see what I mean, please have a look at the attached PDF file. It was generated: .\" playing with gpi

[Groff] Re: Broken chars

2005-03-22 Thread Mike FABIAN
Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> $B$5$s$O=q$-$^$7$?(B: (B (B>>But apparently many man-pages (not only the perl ones) do not do that (B>>right. (B> (B> So what to do? Spank the manpage authors to do it the right way? (B (BYes, but this will take a lot of time. (B (BWe should start with

[Groff] Re: Broken chars

2005-03-22 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>But apparently many man-pages (not only the perl ones) do not do that >right. So what to do? Spank the manpage authors to do it the right way? Add another ton of hackish exceptions? All seems to be a cul-de-sac. Jan Engelhardt -- ___ Groff mailing

[Groff] Re: troff.1 in French

2005-03-22 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I would like to translate troff.1 in French, Great! Note that it is probably more important to translate groff.1 since this is what normal users should read first. > - do you know if this has already be done? As far as I know, this hasn't been done already. > - the version of this manpage I

Re: [Groff] Re: YaDCM (Yet another Drop Capital Macro)

2005-03-22 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> But, change that `.sp 4', half way down the second drop `A' in your > latest example, to just a simple `.sp' -- oops, *that* wasn't meant > to happen ;-( The attached version fixes this. It inserts one line too much space, though, but I haven't had time yet to investigate this further. I've a

[Groff] Re: Broken chars

2005-03-22 Thread Mike FABIAN
Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> $B$5$s$O=q$-$^$7$?(B: (B (B>> Aah, sorry, I've changed the `bv' mapping in later groff versions (B>> (U+2502 is wrong). (B> (B> BTW, I've just read the XFree 4.5.0 release notes, and I've found this (B> item regarding xterm: (B> (B> Add translation to