[Groff] -mm formatting macros question

2015-09-15 Thread Marisa Giancarla
This should be easy - what are the macros in -mm that end a line early, and that put a blank line between two paragraphs. Is .BR one of them? Marisa LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/marisagiancarla Opensim City: https://OpensimCity.org Opensim Radio: http://radio.opensimcity.org:8188 Em

Re: [Groff] ms header too large

2015-09-15 Thread Colton Lewis
Easy thing to fix. On 9/15/15, Keith Marshall wrote: > On 15/09/15 18:49, Colton Lewis wrote: >> I've included a diff of the standard s.tmac and my changes. > > Unfortunately, your submitted diff is not in a suitable format; > it needs to be patch compatible, generated by 'diff -u ...' (for > pre

Re: [Groff] Trouble switching to groff, macro gives syntax error...

2015-09-15 Thread Damian McGuckin
On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Marisa Giancarla wrote: Ok, trying that gave me an improvement but i still have these issues: There is several lines of whitespace and a page number. I want the first line of text to be on the first line of output and no page numbers. I have never used 'groff' for such

Re: [Groff] ms header too large

2015-09-15 Thread Keith Marshall
On 15/09/15 18:49, Colton Lewis wrote: > I've included a diff of the standard s.tmac and my changes. Unfortunately, your submitted diff is not in a suitable format; it needs to be patch compatible, generated by 'diff -u ...' (for preference), or if your diff doesn't support that, 'diff -c ...'.

Re: [Groff] Groff Digest, Vol 132, Issue 6

2015-09-15 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> I've included a diff of the standard s.tmac and my changes. If others agree, I can commit this. However, please resend the patch using `diff -u'. Werner

Re: [Groff] Groff Digest, Vol 132, Issue 6

2015-09-15 Thread Colton Lewis
I think I have a good idea what to do. >> When processing the attached source, I notice the header >> margin is significantly larger than the expected 1 inch. >> What is happening? > > This only happens on the first page after the title page, right? > There is a > > .rs > .sp 1 > > at the end

Re: [Groff] Trouble switching to groff, macro gives syntax error...

2015-09-15 Thread Mike Bianchi
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 12:38:56AM -0700, Marisa Giancarla wrote: > Im trying to convert my plain text documents to groff with -mm macro > so that i can generate plain text and pdf formats automaticly. When > processing it i get a syntax error. I can't post the details here > since the formatting

Re: [Groff] ms header too large

2015-09-15 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> When processing the attached source, I notice the header > margin is significantly larger than the expected 1 inch. > What is happening? This only happens on the first page after the title page, right? There is a .rs .sp 1 at the end of the definition of "cov*rp-print" in s.tmac which is

Re: [Groff] ms header too large

2015-09-15 Thread Heinz-Jürgen Oertel
Am Montag, 14. September 2015, 22:02:42 schrieb Colton Lewis: > When processing the attached source, I notice the header > margin is significantly larger than the expected 1 inch. > What is happening? > > I'm working with version 1.22.3 and use the command: > groff -mms -Tpdf -P-pletter source >do

Re: [Groff] Trouble switching to groff, macro gives syntax error...

2015-09-15 Thread Marisa Giancarla
Ok, trying that gave me an improvement but i still have these issues: There is several lines of whitespace and a page number. I want the first line of text to be on the first line of output and no page numbers. There are left and right margins. I need it to have no margins and a page width of 80

Re: [Groff] Trouble switching to groff, macro gives syntax error...

2015-09-15 Thread Damian McGuckin
Hi Marisa, On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Marisa Giancarla wrote: Im trying to convert my plain text documents to groff with -mm macro so that i can generate plain text and pdf formats automaticly. When processing it i get a syntax error. Here is the command I'm using: groff -p -t -mm -Tascii conimp

[Groff] Trouble switching to groff, macro gives syntax error...

2015-09-15 Thread Marisa Giancarla
Im trying to convert my plain text documents to groff with -mm macro so that i can generate plain text and pdf formats automaticly. When processing it i get a syntax error. I can't post the details here since the formatting is critical to the issue. Here is a link to the details: https://www.ev