> Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>
>* The body of a 'while' request is treated like the body of a
> 'de' request: 'gtroff' temporarily stores it in a macro that
> is deleted after the loop has been exited. It can
> considerably slow down a macro if the body of the 'while'
> reque
On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 10:26:01 -0500
Peter Schaffter wrote:
> With mom, typical book parts are all user settable strings. The
> defaults are English but easily changed, e.g.
>
> .CHAPTER_STRING "Chapître
Ahh...could not find it. :-(
> Groff can handle most TeX hyphenation pattern files withou
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:10:04AM -0500, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> Subject: Re: [groff] [Groff] Unintended impact of strip.sed on om.tmac-u?
>
> I have, admittedly, never processed a document larger than a 600
> page novel.
I have typeset many books of sizes close to 1000 pages (and often
more) t
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> It has been said that stripping tmac files improves their
> perfomance. I tried it on s.tmac. It cuts the file by 48%.
> But on a real-life groff file of considerable complexity
> it saved less than 1% of cpu time.
>
> This example suggests that strippi
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017, Gour wrote:
> What about the other part, iow. language support in groff/mom ala Babel to get
> proper localized names for typical book parts like part/chapter...,
> hyphenation
> patterns, creating indexes, glossary..?
With mom, typical book parts are all user settable strin
Hi Doug,
> Does it make more difference in other macro packages?
Yes, particularly those with more comments, than -ms say, and with
.while loops, like -mom, apparently. `info groff | less' says
* The body of a 'while' request is treated like the body of a
'de' request: 'gtroff' tempor
It has been said that stripping tmac files improves their
perfomance. I tried it on s.tmac. It cuts the file by 48%.
But on a real-life groff file of considerable complexity
it saved less than 1% of cpu time.
This example suggests that stripping may be a frill that
makes groff maintenance more co
Hi Ingo,
> > But if we want to move from batch processing to interactive updating
> > whilst editing
>
> That probably doesn't matter because groff is simply not fast enough
> for that in the first place, even for documents of moderate size, for
> example large manual pages.
Sure it is. It's don
Hi Ralph,
Ralph Corderoy wrote on Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 11:48:33AM +:
> Ted wrote:
>> Larry wrote:
>>> Groff is, compared to most other formatting systems, blazing-fast.
> ...
>>> it made two passes through what became a 700-900 page manual
>>> (depending on what was included) to produce a PDF
On Sun, 12 Nov 2017 10:45:41 -0500
Peter Schaffter wrote:
> Make sure the font you're using contains the Croation glyphs. To
> the best of my knowledge, none of the fonts that ship with groff has
> them.
Ahh, I see...
> You have to install them yourself (use install-font.sh). I A downloaded
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