Re: [Groff] gkurz, a short introduction for german users

2007-08-26 Thread Michael(tm) Smith
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2007-08-27 00:08 +0200: > - At many places you put a hyphen ('-', yields '‐') where a hyphen-minus > sign ('\-', yields '-') would be more appropriate. Especially in > command-line options. The hyphens not only look strange in command-line > options, they al

Re: [Groff] gkurz, a short introduction for german users

2007-08-26 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Please take a look at this document (It is written in german), I > would like to add it to the groff-wiki or maybe even the groff > distribution, once it is finished. Attached a revised version which already includes Bruno's changes. This is far from perfect yet, but... Werner .\" vim: se

Re: [Groff] gkurz, a short introduction for german users

2007-08-26 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello Axel, > Feel free to comment on the content and the style. Two comments only: - At many places you put a hyphen ('-', yields '‐') where a hyphen-minus sign ('\-', yields '-') would be more appropriate. Especially in command-line options. The hyphens not only look strange in comma

Re: [Groff] parsing a corner specification

2007-08-26 Thread Joel E. Denny
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Keith Marshall wrote: > Even if this were true, it makes no sense in geometric terms, to refer > to the `left corner' of an object. What, exactly, should that be > interpreted to mean? > > In your example, object `A' is a circle; it doesn't have *any* corners! Thanks fo

[Groff] gkurz, a short introduction for german users

2007-08-26 Thread Axel Kielhorn
Hello! About two month ago I started looking at groff. I discovered that support for german was recently added and installed 1.19.2, only to learn that I needed 1.19.3 from CVS. It took some digging and asking around until I was able to write my first document. In order to spare future users

Re: [Groff] parsing a corner specification

2007-08-26 Thread Keith Marshall
On Sunday 26 August 2007 00:51, Joel E. Denny wrote: > Third, there are cases where the interpretation of "left" alone is > unambiguous and it should be interpreted as a corner, but it's a > syntax error instead.  My original example in this thread is such a > case: > >   .PS >   A: circle "A" >