Re: [Groff] [mom] two formatting questions

2016-03-19 Thread Marisa Giancarla
I tried both those changes, adding the margins settings and switching to A4 and still get the same results… Marisa > On Mar 19, 2016, at 4:49 PM, Russell Hyer wrote: > > .HEADER_MARGIN .25i > .FOOTER_MARGIN .25i

Re: [Groff] [mom] two formatting questions

2016-03-19 Thread Russell Hyer
Hi Marisa, If you switch to A4 paper, then your document will automatically fit within the page margin's without printing over the page heading on the second page. If you want to continue to use US Letter, then, see the documents attached. The only changes I've made were adding: .HEADER_MARGIN .

Re: [Groff] [mom] two formatting questions

2016-03-19 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Sat, Mar 19, 2016, Marisa Giancarla wrote: > Im switching from the mm macro set to mom, and i have a couple questions: > 1) how do i do thing like bold or italic? With .FT .FT I = italic .FT B = bold It can also be done inline with \*[IT] or \*[BD] A sentence with \*[IT]italics\*[PREV]

Re: [Groff] [mom] two formatting questions

2016-03-19 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Marisa, A partial answer... > 1) how do i do thing like bold or italic? .FT http://www.schaffter.ca/mom/momdoc/typesetting.html#font Cheers, Ralph.

[Groff] [mom] two formatting questions

2016-03-19 Thread Marisa Giancarla
Im switching from the mm macro set to mom, and i have a couple questions: 1) how do i do thing like bold or italic? 2) on my output the body text goes from the top margin down, above the page headers and in fact appears on top of the headers mashed up. Any help? Marisa Newton City: https:/

Re: [Groff] mom: Combining CODE with QUOTE creates excessive vertical space

2016-03-19 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> > Whatever collateral damage this creates I don't know. > A lot. :) Ah. Sorry for giving bad advice, then. (I figured that since the register gets removed anyway in the course of events, setting it temporarily wouldn't hurt in the long run.)

Re: [Groff] mom: Combining CODE with QUOTE creates excessive vertical space

2016-03-19 Thread Peter Schaffter
Chris -- On Wed, Mar 16, 2016, Chris Marusich wrote: > Specifically, when I render the attached file "groff-mom-problem.mom", I > see more vertical space below the code snippet than above it. Is this > expected behavior? I expected to see equal amounts of vertical space > above and below. I'm usin

Re: [Groff] mom: Combining CODE with QUOTE creates excessive vertical space

2016-03-19 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > > I expected to see equal amounts of vertical space above > > and below. > > Indeed, that would be more aesthetic. > > I have no experience with mom at all, so you'd best wait to > hear from Peter or one of the other gurus. I can only offer > a q