Re: [Groff] Typesetting arbitrary fractions?

2005-11-04 Thread Robert Goulding
On Nov 4, 2005, at 10:46 PM, T. Kurt Bond wrote: What's a good way to typeset arbitrary fractions like 1/100 and 1/1000 after the styel of \(12? Preprocess with eqn (i.e., groff -e -ms): .EQ delim $$ .EN .LP We can write one-thousandth as $1 smallover 1000$. ___

[Groff] Typesetting arbitrary fractions?

2005-11-04 Thread T. Kurt Bond
What's a good way to typeset arbitrary fractions like 1/100 and 1/1000 after the styel of \(12? -- T. Kurt Bond, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

Re: [Groff] Localization question

2005-11-04 Thread Fabrice Ménard
Here it is. Hope it will be useful. I've also joigned frhyph.tex (taken from CTAN) but I don't know if it works as is. (I just commented out what I was thinking out of interest and dropped the escape mecanism for some accented letters, but I really don't know anything about these hyphenation st

Re: [Groff] Groff mingwPORT Released

2005-11-04 Thread Keith Marshall
On Friday 04 November 2005 6:20 pm, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > * Automated patching of the source tree, to add a `bindist' make > > target, so facilitating the creation of redistributable pre-built > > binary packages; (the necessary patches are in the included > > `mingwPORT.patch' file). > >

Re: [Groff] Groff mingwPORT Released

2005-11-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> * Automated patching of the source tree, to add a `bindist' make > target, so facilitating the creation of redistributable pre-built > binary packages; (the necessary patches are in the included > `mingwPORT.patch' file). This could be added to groff sources directly... Werner ___

Re: [Groff] "creep" and booklets

2005-11-04 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> > Excellent idea! And thanks for the snappy response. This would > > take the problem out of groff which would be a good thing for > > this application (especially since the amount of creep required > > =depends on the thickness of paper you are printing to, and I'm > > much happier not to have

Re: [Groff] Re: [Fwd: pdfmark troubles]

2005-11-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > Keith, if you like I can make you a member of the `groff > > developer' team so that you can commit your code directly to the > > CVS. To do that I ask you to create an account on > > savannah.gnu.org. > > I did that; user name is `keithmarshall', (without the quotes). Added. > I don't thin

Re: [Groff] makeinfo problem

2005-11-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Since `{' and `}' are technically sed directives in their own right, aah, yes. Badly documented in `sed.info'. > Even better, might be to rewrite the sed expression as > > s/^.* \([^ ]\+\)$/\1/;1q > > thus avoiding the braces altogether. Done. Thanks for the suggestion! > I found I had t

Re: [Groff] "creep" and booklets

2005-11-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Now here's the point. Because of the thickness of the paper, the > middle pages (toward the bottom of the above pile) are puched > outwards. To tidy this up, you can take a guillotine and slice of > the protruding bits (of all except the first). > > However, this then leaves the print closer to

[Groff] Groff mingwPORT Released

2005-11-04 Thread Keith MARSHALL
FWIW, I've posted a release of groff-1.19.2-mingwPORT-1 here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/groff-1.19.2-mingwPORT-1.tar.bz2?download For those unfamiliar with the mingwPORT concept, it is a scripting framework originally created by Earnie Boyd, and designed to guide less sophisticated

Re: [Groff] "creep" and booklets

2005-11-04 Thread Bob Diertens
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:21:17PM -, Ted Harding wrote: > On 04-Nov-05 Bob Diertens wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:01:12AM -, Ted Harding wrote: > >> > >> [ ... ] > > > > You can easily do this by manipulating the PostScript file. > > The Perl script below suffices. > > > > usage

Re: [Groff] "creep" and booklets

2005-11-04 Thread Ted Harding
On 04-Nov-05 Bob Diertens wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:01:12AM -, Ted Harding wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> >> I'd welcome views and contributions about the following. >> >> It concerns making a "booklet" out of a PS document. >> >> 1. Background: >> If you have (say) a 16-page PS document,

Re: Re: [Groff] Re: [Fwd: pdfmark troubles]

2005-11-04 Thread keith.d.marshall
Werner Lemberg wrote, quoting me: > > The following is my reply to a private enquiry from Zvezdan> > Petkovic, > > reproduced here with his permission:-- > > Keith, if you like I can make you a member of the `groff developer' > team so that you can commit your code directly to the CVS. To do tha

Re: [Groff] makeinfo problem

2005-11-04 Thread Keith MARSHALL
In the following patch, proposed by Werner Lemberg: --- aclocal.m4.old 2005-10-27 16:31:12.0 +0200 +++ aclocal.m4 2005-11-04 08:40:02.021538384 +0100 @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ else # We need an additional level of quoting to make sed's regexps work. [makeinfo

Re: [Groff] multiple preformatted parts w/ html

2005-11-04 Thread Heinz-Jürgen Oertel
Am Mittwoch, 2. November 2005 14:13 schrieb Rasmus Hahn: > Hello, > > i am trying to get 2 preformatted sections with `groff -ms -Thtml ' > (input at end), but only the first part is preformatted in html > output. When using -Tps instead of -Thtml or not using the .NH in > between the 2 sections it

Re: [Groff] "creep" and booklets

2005-11-04 Thread Bob Diertens
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:01:12AM -, Ted Harding wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'd welcome views and contributions about the following. > > It concerns making a "booklet" out of a PS document. > > 1. Background: > If you have (say) a 16-page PS document, you can run it > through the following pipe

Re: [Groff] Re: [Fwd: pdfmark troubles]

2005-11-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> The following is my reply to a private enquiry from Zvezdan > Petkovic, reproduced here with his permission:-- Keith, if you like I can make you a member of the `groff developer' team so that you can commit your code directly to the CVS. To do that I ask you to create an account on savannah.gn