Re: [Groff] patch for pdfroff

2006-06-16 Thread Zvezdan Petkovic
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 03:03:25PM +0100, Keith Marshall wrote: > Thanks for suggesting this potential enhancement. I think, however, that > I prefer `--emit-ps', or `--emit-postscript', (one or the other, but not > both, otherwise abbreviation becomes unwieldy), to your choice of > `--leave-po

Re: [Groff] tables in a macro

2006-06-16 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> I want to have a variable parameter list. At maximum I can > have up to 10 parameters. Each parameter opens a new row. > If the parameter is empty then do not open a new row. If you can restrict yourself to a simple, particular layout and don't need the full flexibility of a general table form

Re: Re: [Groff] The permuted index from Hell

2006-06-16 Thread M Bianchi
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 10:49:05AM -0400, Larry Kollar wrote: > Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > >> What started that was my early experiences with unix where I went > >> to the permuted index and looked for "rename a file". I was not > >> plesed when the only thing I could find is the rename(2) system

Re: [Groff] The permuted index from Hell

2006-06-16 Thread Larry Kollar
Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> What started that was my early experiences with unix where I went >> to the permuted index and looked for "rename a file". I was not >> plesed when the only thing I could find is the rename(2) system call. > > For groff.texinfo, I manually add permuted index entries. I r

Re: [Groff] patch for pdfroff

2006-06-16 Thread Keith Marshall
Hi Zvezdan, On Friday 16 June 2006 8:47 am, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: > The patch against 1.19.2 that creates pdfroff2 is attached below. Thanks for suggesting this potential enhancement. I think, however, that I prefer `--emit-ps', or `--emit-postscript', (one or the other, but not both, otherw

[Groff] patch for pdfroff

2006-06-16 Thread Zvezdan Petkovic
I use pdfroff a lot. I also use gpresent a lot. I process most of my writing using a set of makefiles to automate a task. The problem is that gpresent _needs_ PostScript input, while pdfroff removes PostScript and leaves PDF only. That doesn't help, because it's an exception to the rules in my ma

Re: [Groff] call for comments on a proposed patch

2006-06-16 Thread Rüdiger Härtel
Hello Gaius this is really a nice patch. I can image another feature: Highlighting every 2nd column. This can be done already, I know, by defining every row. But enabling this for the complete table would be less work. .defcolor grey rgb 0.1f 0.1f 0.1f .TS tab(#), center, alternate(white,grey