This thread made my morning and I fully agree: Love to read the elaborate
delicately humourful e-mails.
In Dutch there's a saying: Schrijvers zijn blijvers, which can be loosy
translated as: Who writes, will be remembered. True in this case.
Regards,
Hans
John Gardner wrote:
> >
> > Your ema
>
> Your emails are the reason I know and often use dict(1). Lol.
Branden's e-mails are the reason I consult the Oxford English dictionary
far more often than I'm comfortable admitting. Either I'm learning obscure
words I know I'll never remember when I need them,[1] <#snarky-footnote-1>
or I'm
On Friday, 9 December 2022 21:09:57 GMT Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> $ dict deriliction
> No definitions found for "deriliction", perhaps you mean:
> gcide: Dereliction
> wn: dereliction
> moby-thesaurus: dereliction
>
> And yes, dereliction has a definition compatible with your use.
>
> Cheers,
I have no opinion about this particular change, but to address this
general point:
On 12/5/22, Larry McVoy wrote:
> I used to run a company that did source management tools and we strongly
> discouraged these sorts of "clean ups" because they change the author
> of that line of code. Our system
Hi Heinz & Wim,
At 2022-12-07T21:52:25+0100, Heinz-Jürgen Oertel wrote:
> thanks for trying to help.
At 2022-12-09T09:32:57+0100, Wim Stockman wrote:
> Thanks Branden for your answer. but it wasn't really what I was
> looking for.
I'm 0 for 2 this week at the groff help desk. I won't quit my da
Hi Branden!
On 12/9/22 22:03, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
Hi Alex & Mike,
Alex, you beat me to this one...
At 2022-12-09T20:43:21+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
personally i find that jarring to read because it's using italics
for the whole path except for the pid which has no styling at all.
>
> so here is my solution:
> the last line of my groff script is:
> ".tm \\n[nl]"
> This shows me the page length in groff units.
> For convenience I put it in a footer macro.
Does this help…?
.de *pagesize* \" $1 = width, $2 = height
\\!x X papersize=\\$1,\\$2
.ll \\$2u-\\n(.o
.pl \\$1
..
.
.\
Hi ,
Thanks Branden for your answer. but it wasn't really what I was looking for.
I found a solution to set the right page length for each ticket.
Like Deri said it cuts after each print job but I just needed to tell how
long each ticket is.
so here is my solution:
the last line of my groff script
