[Groff] Re: Refer and Journals

2007-03-15 Thread Robert Marks
Here are some on-line resources beyond the Man entry for refer: M. Lesk, Updating Publication Lists http://wolfram.schneider.org/bsd/7thEdManVol2/refer/refer.html M. Lesk, Some Applications of Inverted Indexes http://www.kohala.com/start/troff/v7man/refer/refer.ps K. Christian, Chapter 10: Refer

Re: [Groff] questions about "Adding TrueType fonts to groff for PDF documents" on http://www.groff-wiki.info/

2007-03-15 Thread Jeff Zhang
On 3/16/07, Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I want to know is it possible in these way and whether or not > ps2pdf can make an cid embeded pdf file from the one produced by > grops? It works for english fonts like budmo.ttf after I changed from gs-esp(8.15) to gs-gpl(8.54), h

Re: [Groff] questions about "Adding TrueType fonts to groff for PDF documents" on http://www.groff-wiki.info/

2007-03-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > This looks like a bug in gs -- I think if you want long enough, gs > > eventually finishes. Maybe you should try the current SVN version > > of it, checking whether it's faster now. > > Assuming that it is the same problem as with the Type 42 fonts > generated by Heirloom dpost, I have tried

Re: [Groff] questions about "Adding TrueType fonts to groff for PDF documents" on http://www.groff-wiki.info/

2007-03-15 Thread Gunnar Ritter
Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I want to know is it possible in these way and whether or not > > ps2pdf can make an cid embeded pdf file from the one produced by > > grops? > > This looks like a bug in gs -- I think if you want long enough, gs > eventually finishes. Maybe you sh

Re: [Groff] Refer and Journals

2007-03-15 Thread Zvezdan Petkovic
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 09:36:22AM -0700, Frank Jahnke wrote: > If that is so, do the readers of this list have some "standard" ones > already worked out? It would be useful to pool these, so that we > don't all have to reinvent the wheel. First, a disclaimer. I use -me most of the time, but coup

Re: [Groff] questions about "Adding TrueType fonts to groff for PDF documents" on http://www.groff-wiki.info/

2007-03-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> So I want to know is it possible in these way and whether or not > ps2pdf can make an cid embeded pdf file from the one produced by > grops? This looks like a bug in gs -- I think if you want long enough, gs eventually finishes. Maybe you should try the current SVN version of it, checking whet

Re: [Groff] line break question

2007-03-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > I can only track down this to the step where the `refer' ms-macros > > are inserted (i.e. the `refer' output for my original document). > > the relevant modified excerpt from the latter is: > [snip] > > I think this has to do with the way ref*add-xxx and ref*field > construct the reference e

[Groff] questions about "Adding TrueType fonts to groff for PDF documents" on http://www.groff-wiki.info/

2007-03-15 Thread Jeff Zhang
It' says "Users who intend to produce PDF do not need to convert TrueType fonts to other formats." on http://www.port.de/cgi-bin/groff/AddingFonts , which is what I am wanted, so I follow the steps similar to what it said: 1. goto $GROFF=$PREFIX/share/groff/1.19.3/font/devps 2. ttf2afm -u /usr/s

Re: [Groff] Refer and Journals

2007-03-15 Thread Frank Jahnke
First, thank you for the detailed reply. On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 16:44 +0100, Joerg van den Hoff wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 02:28:15PM -0700, Frank Jahnke wrote: > > I am trying to cast references from refer into the format requested by a > > particular journal. Is there a place where better

Re: [Groff] Refer and Journals

2007-03-15 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 02:28:15PM -0700, Frank Jahnke wrote: > I am trying to cast references from refer into the format requested by a > particular journal. My old Bell Labs documentation on refer does not > have much information on the topic, and sadly the man page is nearly > incomprehensible

[Groff] Refer and Journals

2007-03-15 Thread Frank Jahnke
I am trying to cast references from refer into the format requested by a particular journal. My old Bell Labs documentation on refer does not have much information on the topic, and sadly the man page is nearly incomprehensible to me. Is there a place where better documentation can be found? Wha

Re: [Groff] line break question

2007-03-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I think this has to do with the way ref*add-xxx and ref*field > construct the reference entry as a series of "words" separated > by spaces. Yep. I've already a patch which I'll apply as soon as gnu.org is working again. Werner

Re: [Groff] line break question

2007-03-15 Thread Joerg van den Hoff
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:39:16AM +0100, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > > I can only track down this to the step where the `refer' ms-macros > > are inserted (i.e. the `refer' output for my original document). > > the relevant modified excerpt from the latter is: > [snip] > > I think this has to do

Re: [Groff] composition operator

2007-03-15 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> Very nice, dankeschoen. The problem was, I didn't know of eqn > magic sdefine, as groff docs are in many places incomplete. > \[de] will do the job, yes. Well, "sdefine" is clearly described in groff's eqn manpage -- it works like "define". Anyhow, I guess most of groff's documentation expects

Re: [Groff] line break question

2007-03-15 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> I can only track down this to the step where the `refer' ms-macros > are inserted (i.e. the `refer' output for my original document). > the relevant modified excerpt from the latter is: [snip] I think this has to do with the way ref*add-xxx and ref*field construct the reference entry as a seri