Re: [Groff] Table cell vertical align

2012-09-11 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Somebody evidently slipped that "u" into neighbor while the > Americans were otherwise occupied. I just did grep -i '[^hfy ]our[^a-zA-Z_-]' `find -type f` \ | grep -v behaviour \ | grep -v colour over the CVS archive and see that the remaining 78 entries are mostly contained in contribu

Re: [Groff] Table cell vertical align

2012-09-11 Thread Denis M. Wilson
> ... I have just found a printout of the groff > 'tbl' man page in an old ring-binder. The footer states: > > Groff Version 1.10 26 June 1995 > > This is the old very terse (à la James Clarke) man-page, in which > "Only the differences between GNU tbl and Unix tbl are described > here". The

Re: [Groff] Table cell vertical align

2012-09-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Ted, > I'm not able at the moment to access an original Unix man-page > for tbl, so cannot compare groff's current one with the Unix > original. The 7th Ed. tbl(1) mainly punts to Lesk's tbl paper in the reference manual. wget -qO- http://cm.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/vol1/man1.bun | sed

Re: [Groff] Table cell vertical align

2012-09-11 Thread Ted Harding
On 11-Sep-2012 17:49:49 Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> That may have been James Clarke, who was *creating* groff in the >> late 1980s in the UK. He would not have been happy with a variant >> spelling such as "neighbor". He would not have 'slipped that "u" >> into neghbour' -- he would have been setting

Re: [Groff] Table cell vertical align

2012-09-11 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> My last email in that thread summed up my understanding, here's a > patch based on that. Thanks, applied, with minor additions. Werner

Re: [Groff] Table cell vertical align

2012-09-11 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> That may have been James Clarke, who was *creating* groff in the > late 1980s in the UK. He would not have been happy with a variant > spelling such as "neighbor". He would not have 'slipped that "u" > into neghbour' -- he would have been setting it up himself! > > However, my then (1991) instal

Re: [Groff] Table cell vertical align

2012-09-11 Thread Ted Harding
On 11-Sep-2012 16:22:38 James K. Lowden wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:06:29 +0200 > Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > >> \^;\^ > > Weaving two threads, my copy of the tbl man page says, > > If a data line consists of only `_' or `=', a single or > double line, respectively, is drawn

Re: [Groff] Table cell vertical align

2012-09-11 Thread James K. Lowden
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:06:29 +0200 Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > \^;\^ Weaving two threads, my copy of the tbl man page says, If a data line consists of only `_' or `=', a single or double line, respectively, is drawn across the table at that point; if a single item in

[Groff] Forwarded: Re: Table cell vertical align

2012-09-11 Thread Mike Bianchi
- Forwarded message from Mike Bianchi - Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:56:51 -0400 From: Mike Bianchi To: Werner LEMBERG Cc: ra...@inputplus.co.uk, sa...@slogedalen.no, groff@gnu.org Subject: Re: [Groff] Table cell vertical align On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:19:57AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrot

Re: [Groff] Table cell vertical align

2012-09-11 Thread Mike Bianchi
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:19:57AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > I think I learnt this from the list when I asked a few months ago. > > See lines marked `->' and tbl(1). [...] > > > > -> l rd. > > ... > > -> \^;\^ > > Very nice :-) This tbl trick apparently escaped my radar, and I ca

Re: [Groff] Table cell vertical align

2012-09-11 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> I had overlooked/forgotten the 'd' specifier. It's a GNU tbl extension (the original tbl had only "t" for top-aligning, the default being vertically centered). > I'll have to read the man page more carefully, but I must > admit it's not very easy to understand fully. Since "d" is only valid

Re: [Groff] Table cell vertical align

2012-09-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Werner, > > I think I learnt this from the list when I asked a few months ago. > > See lines marked `->' and tbl(1). [...] > > > > -> l rd. > > ... > > -> \^;\^ > > Very nice :-) This tbl trick apparently escaped my radar, and I can't > remember having seen it on the list. http://lists

Re: [Groff] Table cell vertical align

2012-09-11 Thread Salve Håkedal
11/9 -12, you wrote: > Hi Salve, > > > I try to learn groff. I want to have 'Text' printed at the bottom of > > its cell. But can't find out how. > > > > .TS > > tab(;) allbox; > > l r. > > T{ > > Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon. > > At the age of 18, he married Anne H

Re: [Groff] Table cell vertical align

2012-09-11 Thread Ted Harding
On 11-Sep-2012 09:08:08 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Salve, > >> I try to learn groff. I want to have 'Text' printed at the bottom of >> its cell. But can't find out how. >> >> .TS >> tab(;) allbox; >> l r. >> T{ >> Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon. >> At the age of 18, h

Re: [Groff] Table cell vertical align

2012-09-11 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I think I learnt this from the list when I asked a few months ago. > See lines marked `->' and tbl(1). [...] > > -> l rd. > ... > -> \^;\^ Very nice :-) This tbl trick apparently escaped my radar, and I can't remember having seen it on the list. Could you prepare a small patch to tbl.m

Re: [Groff] Table cell vertical align

2012-09-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Salve, > I try to learn groff. I want to have 'Text' printed at the bottom of > its cell. But can't find out how. > > .TS > tab(;) allbox; > l r. > T{ > Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon. > At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, > with whom he had three children

Re: [Groff] Indexing these days with groff

2012-09-11 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:07:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Dorai Sitaram To: "groff@gnu.org" Subject: Re: [Groff] Indexing these days with groff +1 on makeindex.  See http://www.ccs.neu.edu/~dorai/troff2page (section 5) if one wants to work off a working example.