Re: [Groff] Back to the future

2014-03-03 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Peter Schaffter : > It isn't groff's place to produce presentationally-neutral output, but > rather to receive presentationally-neutral output and interpret > it for typesetting. The logical flow isn't groff => XSL-FO, it's > XSL-FO => groff. Agreed. This sounds like you and I are coming to the

Re: [Groff] Back to the future

2014-03-03 Thread James Cloos
A reasonably small update, which would demonstrate what can be done, might be to port GNU fmt(1)’s paragraph algorithm to groff’s nroff. (It is based on TeX’s, but simplified for character cell terminals. As such, it should be a perfect fit for nroff and provide a hint of what could be done for tr

Re: [Groff] Groff to pdf/Windows

2014-03-03 Thread "Robert Thorsby"
On 04/03/14 12:55:48, Clarke Echols wrote: I've been using groff to create a PostScript file, then I use the Linux convert command: convert file.ps file.pdf and I've never had a problem with people reading it when I email it to them, whether they're on mobile devices, PCs, or Macs. D

Re: [Groff] Groff to pdf/Windows

2014-03-03 Thread Clarke Echols
I've been using groff to create a PostScript file, then I use the Linux convert command: convert file.ps file.pdf and I've never had a problem with people reading it when I email it to them, whether they're on mobile devices, PCs, or Macs. Did I miss something? Clarke On 03/03/2014 03:38

Re: [Groff] Groff to pdf/Windows

2014-03-03 Thread GregExp
I found myself a way out: with the convert command you can turn a .pdf to a .pdf convert foo.pdf foo1.pdf You can read foo1 with adobe reader. Well, the text ist not very sharp, an not very nice to read. But it's better than nothing. Cheers Gregoire Babey Le lundi 24 février 2014 à 01:40 +01

Re: [Groff] The future redux

2014-03-03 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014, Pierre-Jean wrote: > But, to effectively use the paragraph at once adjustment, one > need to patch the macro sets (or create some new ones). > Because of the architecture of troff, things are done this > way: > - when troff format the paragraph at once, it also > deal with d

[Groff] Back to the future

2014-03-03 Thread Peter Schaffter
I thought I'd leave Future Redux alone for a while to see where the cards fell. List members, apparently, suffer somewhat from ADD because--no real surprise--it forked into a discussion about manpages. I've no quibble with that, but if we're to figure out what to do about groff in the future, we'

Re: [Groff] man pages (tangential to Future Redux)

2014-03-03 Thread Federico Lucifredi
On 03/01/2014 04:41 PM, Colin Watson wrote: I think it makes more sense to make sureman:foo and similar URLs do sensible things in all the browsers people use. While there are exceptions, if you want to see something in a browser, it's usually more natural to start from that browser's URL bar.