Re: [Groff] trying to understand .ad request

2012-09-22 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Perhaps an additional sentence along the lines of "If adjusting is > active, issuing .ad with no argument causes no change in the > adjustment mode" would clarify this. (Or perhaps I'm the only one > who had trouble following it as it reads now.) Here's the added text to the CVS repository:

Re: [Groff] Macro packages

2012-09-22 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012, trebol wrote: > Hello all, > I’m new using groff. Can anyone tell me a short introduc‐ > tion to the ms, mm, me, mom macro packages? A short introduction to the mom macros can be had by reading intro.html using.html in the mom html documentation. The FILES section o

Re: [Groff] Macro packages

2012-09-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi trebol, > I’m new using groff. Can anyone tell me a short introduction to the > ms, mm, me, mom macro packages? I would like to know the opinion of > someone who has used these packages for all types of works (math, > literature, ...). I’m reading "Unix text processing", "Troff user > manual

Re: [Groff] Macro packages

2012-09-22 Thread brian m. carlson
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 07:10:56PM +0100, trebol wrote: > Hello all, > I’m new using groff. Can anyone tell me a short introduc‐ > tion to the ms, mm, me, mom macro packages? I would like to > know the opinion of someone who has used these packages for > all types of works (math, literature,

[Groff] Macro packages

2012-09-22 Thread trebol
Hello all, I’m new using groff. Can anyone tell me a short introduc‐ tion to the ms, mm, me, mom macro packages? I would like to know the opinion of someone who has used these packages for all types of works (math, literature, ...). I’m reading "Unix text processing", "Troff user manual

Re: [Groff] trying to understand .ad request

2012-09-22 Thread Dave Kemper
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > You've missed a paragraph in the documentation: > > With no argument, `gtroff' adjusts lines in the same way it did > before adjusting was deactivated (with a call to `na', for > example). > > In other words, `.ad XXX' stores

Re: [Groff] Problem building on 32 bit Ubuntu 11.04

2012-09-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Blake, > Been using CVS for years and never knew about those update options. I > suppose whenever I had a problem I just deleted the whole thing an > re-checked it out. It is amazing to me that CVS requires special > parameters to do a real update. Perhaps of use: $ cat ~/.cvsrc