> BTW--does anyone know how KP/TeX handles paragraphs with "spread"
> (.brp) lines?
You simply insert
\penalty -1
to force a line break at this very place (while still retaining
justification).
On the other hand, the equivalent to `.br' (and the end of a
paragraph) is to insert an infin
Denis --
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014, Denis M. Wilson wrote:
> 7. I posted previously in this group. See
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2012-09/msg00070.html
When I checked the archive for this, the index.tmac and markup.ist
are both .bin files. What gives?
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Peter Schaffter
http://ww
Hi Ted,
> I think I have to disagree here. For example, in the middle of a
> paragraph I may wish to put some text centred on lines by itself, and
> this may be in the middle of a sentence -- perhaps a parenthetical
> quotation. Or, in technical writing, a displayed equation in the
> middle of a s
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014, Ted Harding wrote:
> I think some confusion is possibly arising here. See in-line below.
>
> > Doesn't a paragraph logically conclude at any request which introduces a
> > break? Or invocation of any macro which itself invokes such a request?
> > (In addition to an empty inp
Writing index stuff was quite a lot of work, but worth the effort as
I've used it quite frequently.
Here's my remarks.
1. I used makeindex, which comes with the TeXLive package.
2. It uses a style file, and there are examples in the man page.
3. My macros use .write so troff cannot be used in s
Keith --
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014, Keith Marshall wrote:
> > Signalling the end of collected paragraphs can't be done exclusively
> > within macros because, unlike SGMLs, paragraph macros in groff
> > generally aren't closed.
>
> Doesn't a paragraph logically conclude at any request which introduces
I think some confusion is possibly arising here. See in-line below.
On 23-Apr-2014 20:45:10 Keith Marshall wrote:
> On 22/04/14 20:40, Peter Schaffter wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014, Ulrich Lauther wrote:
>>> Well of course not. A paragraph ends, e.g. when an empty line is
>>> seen. Probably the
On 22/04/14 18:31, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> I have an aversion to LISP so xindy is out (someone once remarked
> that LISP stands for Lost In Superfluous Parentheses), and I'm not
> well-versed about makeindex. However, I'm thinking that if Denis
> has got indexing working with makeindex, perhaps t
On 22/04/14 20:40, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014, Ulrich Lauther wrote:
>> Well of course not. A paragraph ends, e.g. when an empty line is
>> seen. Probably there are a whole lot of other conditions. My
>> understanding is that formatting takes place after macros have
>> been ex
