Re: The -mb macro package for books

2021-11-23 Thread Lucas de Sena
On 2021-11-19, Oliver Corff wrote: > Hi Seninha, > > Congratulations, you wrote a very compact macro package with a good set > of functionalities and capabilities. Please share with us whether this > is a one-of-a-kind effort or whether you intend to develop this package > further. I'm developing

Re: Is there any way to make alternate rows of a table have a light gray background?

2021-11-23 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> The problem occurs when your table spans pages. Since you > are creating the gray line _after_ the current line, > sometimes you get an extra gray line on the first page, and > other times you get a double gray line on the second page. Indeed. Just to clarify, filling the *next* line ahea

Re: Portability to Mac OS X

2021-11-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> > 6. Some time ago I bumped our minimum required Texinfo version to >> >5.0 (for a few reasons[5]), and this is too new for stock Mac >> >OS X (makeinfo 4.8). However, it should be possible to make >> >generated *.info files part of the distribution archive and >> >thereby red

Re: Portability to Mac OS X

2021-11-23 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi, Werner! At 2021-10-27T07:36:13+, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > 6. Some time ago I bumped our minimum required Texinfo version to > >5.0 (for a few reasons[5]), and this is too new for stock Mac OS > >X (makeinfo 4.8). However, it should be possible to make > >generated *.info file

Re: Should vertical motions be in vees or ems? Where does the baseline go?

2021-11-23 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2021-11-22T23:06:38-0500, Douglas McIlroy wrote: > > This [disagreement in position of a drawn baseline] > > seems like a bug in Heirloom Doctools troff to me, but given that > > code base's provenance, it's easily possible that it's better aligned > > with AT&T troff behavior. (Does someone kn