Re: [groff] [Groff] What does the "-u" in ".tmac-u" mean?

2017-11-11 Thread Ted Harding
On Sat, 2017-11-11 at 21:32 -0500, Larry Kollar wrote: > > Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > > It's not about saving disk space. Remember that groff is an > > interpreted language *without* a translation to an internal > > representation.[*] This means, for example, that a comment within a > > loop w

Re: [groff] [Groff] What does the "-u" in ".tmac-u" mean?

2017-11-11 Thread Larry Kollar
> Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > It's not about saving disk space. Remember that groff is an > interpreted language *without* a translation to an internal > representation.[*] This means, for example, that a comment within a > loop with 1000 repeats gets parsed a thousand times, again and again. >

Re: [groff] mom & slide-presentations

2017-11-11 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Sat, Nov 11, 2017, Gour wrote: > Thank you. So, it looks that in order to use groff for *both* > general content (articles, books,...) and slide-show presentations > I'd have to learn/master *two* macro packages which makes ConTeXt > more attractive option for my use case...especially consideri

Re: [groff] mom & slide-presentations

2017-11-11 Thread Gour
On Sat, 11 Nov 2017 10:55:42 -0500 Peter Schaffter wrote: > Not personally, though nothing in mom prevents it. > > gpresent might be a better choice for creating slides because it > provides a handy PAUSE macro, but it can't be used with mom owing to > macro naming conflicts. Thank you. So, it

Re: [groff] mom & slide-presentations

2017-11-11 Thread Peter Schaffter
Gour -- On Sat, Nov 11, 2017, Gour wrote: > does anyone have experience preparing slide-show presentations using mom > package? Not personally, though nothing in mom prevents it. gpresent might be a better choice for creating slides because it provides a handy PAUSE macro, but it can't be used w

Re: [groff] mom & slide-presentations

2017-11-11 Thread Saša Janiška
On Sat, 11 Nov 2017 09:29:04 +0100 Ingo Schwarze wrote: Hello Ingo, > Not -mom, but -mm with gpresent. Hmmm, that's interesting indeed. > Example presentations at international conferences: > http://mandoc.bsd.lv/press.html (look for "source" links there) Looked at your EuroBSDCON-2015 pre

Re: [groff] mom & slide-presentations

2017-11-11 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi, Gour wrote on Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 09:01:35AM +0100: > does anyone have experience preparing slide-show presentations using > mom package? Not -mom, but -mm with gpresent. Homepage (seems abandoned): http://www.science.uva.nl/~bobd/useful/gpresent/ OpenBSD port: http://cvsweb.openbsd.or

[groff] mom & slide-presentations

2017-11-11 Thread Gour
Hello, does anyone have experience preparing slide-show presentations using mom package? I'd like to have single source document in order to be able to create handouts etc. (like in e.g. LaTeX's beamer pacakge) besides presentation itself? Sincerely, Gour -- The work of a man who is unattache