[looping in groff@ because I'm characterizing an unresolved argument and
people may want to dispute my claims]
Hi Michael!
At 2021-01-20T22:03:12+0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Hi Branden,
>
> I wonder if I might ask for your input...
>
> For some time now, man-pages(7) has the text
Shane --
On Wed, Jan 20, 2021, Shane Bishop wrote:
> I'm a university student working on my thesis for my Honours
> Bachelor of Computer Science. I'm new to groff, and I'm wondering
> if there is a place where I can access sample templates/groff
> source for University theses.
>
> I'm looking fo
Hi Bjarni,
You've changed the subject, so please change the Subject: when doing so.
At 2021-01-21T03:24:38+, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> Concerning the warning "cannot adjust line".
>
> It is caused by "troff" meddling with the line adjustment in at least
> text block columns ( T{...T}
Concerning the warning "cannot adjust line".
It is caused by "troff" meddling with the line adjustment in at least
text block columns ( T{...T} ).
Happens when the adjustment mode is 'b' (adjust to both margins),
which is the default mode.
Temporary workaround is to put '.ad l' in front
On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 18:00:39 +0100
Oliver Corff wrote:
> try this:
>
> TS H
Hi Oliver,
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm still stuck for the "right" way, but it
turns out lengthening the logical page does the trick:
.pl 100i
I didn't find a way to avoid diving down into troff request
Thanks Werner,
I'm sorry for the attachment. I won't do it again.
So thank you for the tip. I disabled the fonts in the /devps/download file
and it went from 12MB to 92K so that is already a big step forward.
Is there a better way to disable the embedding of fonts ?
Because I still see a lot of thi
Wim,
> I'm generating my postscript file with my own macros for writing
> company letters. But the generated filesize is 12MB for the PS
> filesize.
please, PLEASE, don't send such huuuge e-mails to a mailing list!
Instead, upload it to a place temporarily where interested people can
download
Hi,
I'm a university student working on my thesis for my Honours Bachelor of
Computer Science. I'm new to groff, and I'm wondering if there is a place where
I can access sample templates/groff source for University theses.
I'm looking for examples using the mom groff macros, but if there are sa
Sorry, that was copy&paste one character too short. Should start with:
.TS H
Oliver.
On 20/01/2021 18:00, Oliver Corff wrote:
Hi James,
try this:
TS H
center nospaces tab(:);
lb s
l l.
Service Branches
_
Service : Person in Charge
_
.TH
Customer Complaints : Willy Nick
Sorry, I only read the first half of your text properly. I didn't check
whether the standard tbl behaviour of the .TS H/.TH mechanism is
observed by the man/mdoc packages. That can theoretically depend on the
output target. If it is a text terminal, then there is no "page length",
the text flows;
Hi James,
try this:
TS H
center nospaces tab(:);
lb s
l l.
Service Branches
_
Service : Person in Charge
_
.TH
Customer Complaints : Willy Nickel
Merchandise Return : Ebenezer Scrooge
.\" fill many, many lines here ...
.TE
You'll see that tbl treats "Service:Person I
Set page length to a very long distance? Perhaps using the max integer
possible in groff?
--d
On Wednesday, January 20, 2021, 11:36:35 AM EST, James K. Lowden
wrote:
How do I show "infinite" tables in nroff? When the tbl output doesn't
fit on one "page", I get:
$ nroff -t foo
err
How do I show "infinite" tables in nroff? When the tbl output doesn't
fit on one "page", I get:
$ nroff -t foo
error: page 2: table will not fit on one page; use .TS H/.TH with a
supporting macro package
I don't understand how man/mdoc arrange for nroff to display one long
page (e.g., for "man
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