> > We also have the slang word `grotty', with similar meaning, and
> > presumably from the same Germanic root; in a `groff' context, the
> > connotation is somewhat unfortunate :-)
>
> You think you have a problem. I must be one of the few people named
> after a groff program.
Hehe. It's not
A couple of bugs affecting collating, tables of contents and lists
crept into mom during the 1.3 cycle. I've got them fixed (I hope),
and committed the fixes (version 1.3-e_3) to the repository and
posted a mom tarball on her homepage. If anyone's experienced
problems, I suggest upgrading.
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P
On Tuesday, 9 May 2006 at 15:57:00 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
>>> Now all we need is a Groff Anthem to be sung at the next International
>>> Groff Confernece ;)
>>
>> So long as it's an improvement on the "Free Software Song" -- see:
>>
>> http://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.html
>>
> > Shrinkable horizontal space can probably be done without a
> > complete redesign of groff, but vertical shrinkable space is
> > impossible IMHO.
>
> Vertical shrinkable (or rather, stretchable) space can be done
> easily with macros and a diversion.
Well, yes, but using diversion has a lot o
> Shrinkable horizontal space can probably be done without a complete
> redesign of groff, but vertical shrinkable space is impossible IMHO.
Vertical shrinkable (or rather, stretchable) space can be done
easily with macros and a diversion. (I assume the purpose of
this is for alignment of the bo
> > [...] the text is `pants' (this is the British
> > word I get for the German `grottenschlecht' :-)
>
> Sounds about right! You must have a fairly good dictionary of
> modern British slang,
http://dict.leo.org
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> Have you ever seen such a song in 7/4 rhythm? With other words,
> the melody is fine, but the text is `pants' (this is the British
> word I get for the German `grottenschlecht' :-)
Sounds about right! You must have a fairly good dictionary of
modern British slang, for my Consise Oxford Diction
> will groff *ever* incorporate shrinkable vertical, and, much more
> important, horizontal space? All other concerns aside, the only
> quibble I've ever had with groff as a typesetting engine is that, as
> Werner reminds us, groff's paragraph formatting algorithm isn't all
> that sophisticated.
On Tue, May 09, 2006, Michail Vidiassov wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> as Subj. says:
> http://tug.org/interviews/interview-files/werner-lemberg.html
Fantastic interview. Methinks we're even luckier than we already
know we are to have Werner as "head man". I particularly like the
bits about Lilypond, w
> Actually, I'm not very interesting ...
Well, this is true too, but of course I've meant
... I'm not very interested
> in hearing Richard Stallman singing, [...]
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> > Now all we need is a Groff Anthem to be sung at the next International
> > Groff Confernece ;)
>
> So long as it's an improvement on the "Free Software Song" -- see:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.html
>
> whence you can download it in .au or .ogg format. But Werner's
> b
On 09-May-06 M Bianchi wrote:
> It was great to read the interview with Werner (our Fearless Leader?).
> What an interesting story! It is good to "meet" you, Werner.
>
> Now all we need is a Groff Anthem to be sung at the next International
> Groff Confernece ;)
So long as it's an improvement on
It was great to read the interview with Werner (our Fearless Leader?).
What an interesting story! It is good to "meet" you, Werner.
Now all we need is a Groff Anthem to be sung at the next International Groff
Confernece ;)
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> "Do not automatically postprocess troff output in the usual manner.
> This will cause the intermediate output to appear on stdout; see
> groff_out(5)."
Please commit.
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