Hi Doug,
> On unjustified text, fmt (which uses an algorithm purported to be like
> Knuth-Plass)
I wonder if that accounts for modern, coreutils 8.28-1, fmt's weirdness
that I've seen for a while but never got around to investigating?
$ yes x | fmt | awk '{print length, $0}' | uniq -c | sed
Hello you two,
> Stephanie wrote:
> > However, Troff's ability to take values of a numerical register and
> > use it as a name to another register (.nr my_\na_\nb) intrigues me
> > very much.
>
> I do not know if that "feature" was an intentional design or an
> accident, and I do not know either i
Doug McIlroy wrote:
> How does Utroff deal with even simple changes of line length, e.g. for
> flowing text around an image as in the following trivial example.
> A robust version that allows for intervening page or paragraph
> breaks would pose even more difficulty.
>
> .wh \n[nl]+3 `in +
I am still puzzled about paragraph-at-a-time typesetting in groff.
How does Utroff deal with even simple changes of line length, e.g. for
flowing text around an image as in the following trivial example.
A robust version that allows for intervening page or paragraph
breaks would pose even more dif
Stephanie Björk wrote:
> However, Troff's ability to take values of a numerical
> register and use it as a name to another register (.nr my_\na_\nb)
> intrigues me very much.
I do not know if that "feature" was an intentional design or an
accident, and I do not know either if it is considered a
P.S. Actually, after re-reading your mail a bit, I think I know what you
meant by your question. Sorry for being confused. Anyway, I think that
Groff's ability to have numerical registers of more than 2 characters long
is "weird and fancy" relative to classical TROFF. I started learning TROFF
fr
> I don't see anything weird or fancy that hasn't been a part of groff
> for at least fifteen years. To what are you referring? I'm
> intrigued.
Perhaps my word choices weren't so good. "Weird, fancy" is kind of
subjective, actually.
I still do think that my macros are using "weird, fancy" stuf
Ralph Corderoy writes:
> > For my last mail about Utmac
> Thanks, they've been interesting, and more digestible drip-fed over the
> days than one long email.
I'm glad to read that!
Cheers, Pierre-Jean.
Hello James and Ralph,
Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > > It may be better to use `.write', if other troffs have that, rather
> > > than allow the local echo(1) to perhaps interpret sum-list's
> > > content?
> ...
> > sy printf '%s\n' '\\*[sum-list]' | sed -e "s/@@@/n./g"
> >
> > would elimina
Hi James,
> > It may be better to use `.write', if other troffs have that, rather
> > than allow the local echo(1) to perhaps interpret sum-list's
> > content?
...
> sy printf '%s\n' '\\*[sum-list]' | sed -e "s/@@@/n./g"
>
> would eliminate that issue.
But still leave open the origina
On Wed, 06 Dec 2017 12:24:58 +
Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > . sy echo \\*[sum-list] | sed -e "s/@@@/n./g" |
> > iconv...
>
> It may be better to use `.write', if other troffs have that, rather
> than allow the local echo(1) to perhaps interpret sum-list's content?
Else:
Hi Pierre-Jean,
> For my last mail about Utmac
Thanks, they've been interesting, and more digestible drip-fed over the
days than one long email.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
Hi Pierre,
> . sy echo \\*[sum-list] | sed -e "s/@@@/n./g" | iconv...
It may be better to use `.write', if other troffs have that, rather than
allow the local echo(1) to perhaps interpret sum-list's content?
--
Cheers, Ralph.
https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
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