[Groff] replicating official memo

2013-02-04 Thread Daniel Lyons
Hi, I'm fairly new to groff. For fun, I decided to copy work's memo template from Word, which you can see here if you're curious: http://www.nrao.edu/brand/NRAO_memo_template_SOC.dotx So, it's not a pretty memo template and my macros are very simplistic, but it seems to basically work, and I c

Re: [Groff] .mso for groff_hdtbl(7)

2013-02-04 Thread Ted Harding
On 04-Feb-2013 23:03:42 Bernd Warken wrote: >> Von: "Werner LEMBERG" >> >> In order to use hdtbl in a roff source file, the following line >> >> must be used first: >> >> >> >> .mso hdtbl.tmac > > In my man-page is everything ok, as soon as I use the .mso line, even > groffer in tty mode. > > Us

Re: [Groff] .mso for groff_hdtbl(7)

2013-02-04 Thread Bernd Warken
> Von: "Werner LEMBERG" > > > >> In order to use hdtbl in a roff source file, the following line > >> must be used first: > >> > >> .mso hdtbl.tmac In my man-page is everything ok, as soon as I use the .mso line, even groffer in tty mode. Using `groff -man -mhdtbl ...' leads to errors, even wit

Re: [Groff] Diagrams in ASCII but text in UTF-8

2013-02-04 Thread Jérôme Frgacic
On Sun 03 Feb 2013 20:36:51 +0100 (CET), Werner LEMBERG wrote: > This is not possible.  The used characters for box crossings and the > like are hard‐coded into grotty, and you can only decide globally > whether to use ‐Tutf8 or ‐Tascii.  However, a small post‐processing > script to replace the b

Re: [Groff] .mso for groff_hdtbl(7)

2013-02-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> In order to use hdtbl in a roff source file, the following line >> must be used first: >> >> .mso hdtbl.tmac > > Surely this isn't correct? Why would `-mhdtbl', on the command line, > not be equally effective? It would, of course. Can you provide a better formulation? Werner

Re: [Groff] .mso for groff_hdtbl(7)

2013-02-04 Thread Keith Marshall
On 02/02/13 22:43, Bernd Warken wrote: In order to use hdtbl in a roff source file, the following line must be used first: .mso hdtbl.tmac Surely this isn't correct? Why would `-mhdtbl', on the command line, not be equally effective? -- Regards, Keith.

Re: [Groff] groff wiki

2013-02-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> the groff wiki website > > http://www.groff-wiki.info/ > > does not exist any longer. So the link at > > gnu.org/software/groff > > should be removed. Fixed, thanks. Werner

Re: [Groff] how to use amsmath symbols ingroff␛

2013-02-04 Thread Pierre-Jean
Hello alls, It appears that I inserted some escape sequence in the content of my previous mail, which explain it appears empty. That was not my intention, of course. Here was my message, and sorry for the noise... Pierre-Jean. > Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: > > > Also, how can I do syntax highl

Re: [Groff] .mso for groff_hdtbl(7)

2013-02-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> In order to use hdtbl in a roff source file, the following line must > be used first: > > .mso hdtbl.tmac > > So it makes sense to include that in the man-page groff_hdtbl(7), > for example at the beginning of the USAGE section. No. Currently, hdtbl only supports PS and PDF output. Wer

Re: [Groff] Error in hdtbl

2013-02-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>>> hdtbl behaves right in both of your examples. The hdtbl-manpage >>> says: >>> >>> If a macro has one or more arguments, and it is not starting a >>> line, it must be enclosed in double quotes. > > Silly me. The man page is incorrect! It must be > > If a macro has one or more argumen