Re: Title woes with mm

2023-12-16 Thread Oliver Corff
Hi Damian, not long after yesterday's question I went to sleep. This morning I woke up thinking "why bother with the macros, just do the layout yourself", and in the meantime you had written. Your answer was exactly what I wanted to do. Thank you very much! Best regards, Oliver. On 17/12/2023

Re: Title woes with mm

2023-12-16 Thread Damian McGuckin
On Sun, 17 Dec 2023, Oliver Corff wrote: 2. Is there a realistic chance to add an authors' affiliation line somewhere, or should I include this information, as a work-around in abstract block? Some of us skip the cover sheet stuff and just spell it out. E.g. .\" kill Header on first pag

Re: Is there a Groff showcase?

2023-12-16 Thread Richard Morse
Hi! Sorry, I can’t find the start of this thread, but this was posted last year? https://github.com/Allfifthstuning/awesome-groff-user-macrosets.git

Title woes with mm

2023-12-16 Thread Oliver Corff
Dear All, I can produce a near approximation of an article title with the mm macro .MT 4, but there are two problems. 1. The authors appear at the top edge of the paper --- see included example. I tried several means, like inserting .SP, to no avail. 2. Is there a realistic chance to add an aut

Re: Proper or correct way to display tables, figures, illustrations

2023-12-16 Thread Oliver Corff
Thank you for this hint, too! Oliver. On 16/12/2023 22:17, Damian McGuckin wrote: On Sat, 16 Dec 2023, Oliver Corff wrote: wonderful! That does the trick. I had been digesting the mm manual page this afternoon, however .TB somehow managed to evade my attention. The .TC table of conten

Re: Proper or correct way to display tables, figures, illustrations

2023-12-16 Thread Damian McGuckin
On Sat, 16 Dec 2023, Oliver Corff wrote: wonderful! That does the trick. I had been digesting the mm manual page this afternoon, however .TB somehow managed to evade my attention. The .TC table of contents macro automatically summarizes them at the end of the document. - Damian

Re: Is there a Groff showcase?

2023-12-16 Thread Robert Thorsby
On 17/12/23 06:57, Peter Schaffter wrote: On Sat, Dec 16, 2023, Mike wrote: Is there a website where the various document layouts and visual capabilities of groff are displayed? If such a website were to exist, it should be divided into categories by the primary macro set used, with an additio

Re: Proper or correct way to display tables, figures, illustrations

2023-12-16 Thread Oliver Corff
Hi Damian, wonderful! That does the trick. I had been digesting the mm manual page this afternoon, however .TB somehow managed to evade my attention. Best regards, Oliver. On 16/12/2023 22:08, Damian McGuckin wrote: On Sat, 16 Dec 2023, Oliver Corff wrote: What is the canonical way to disp

Re: Proper or correct way to display tables, figures, illustrations

2023-12-16 Thread Damian McGuckin
On Sat, 16 Dec 2023, Oliver Corff wrote: What is the canonical way to display a title/and or small caption (like "Table 1: Distribution of Events over Time")? .TB "Dictribution of Events over Time" See "man groff_mm" Regardss - Damian

Re: Is there a Groff showcase?

2023-12-16 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Sat, Dec 16, 2023, Mike wrote: > My original thought was: > > Is there a website where the various document layouts and visual > capabilities of groff are displayed? > > - Drop caps > - Text in the margin > - Text around an image or quote > - Graphical title pages > - Background images > - Col

Proper or correct way to display tables, figures, illustrations

2023-12-16 Thread Oliver Corff
Dear All, currently I am working on a large translation, the text contains a number of illustrations, figures and tables. I am using the macro package mm. What is the canonical way to display a title/and or small caption (like "Table 1: Distribution of Events over Time")? In my earlier work, I

Re: Groff hdtbl tables disappear near the footer

2023-12-16 Thread Bjarni Ingi Gislason
There are bugs in "page-a.ms". The last one is for a trailing space. Found by using the options "-ww -b -z" (except the trailing space) and patched HDTBL macros. --- page-a.ms 2023-12-16 17:42:06.0 + +++ page-a.new.ms 2023-12-16 18:06:58.0 + @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ .

Re: gropdf : missing colour when used with HDTBL macros

2023-12-16 Thread Bjarni Ingi Gislason
On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 11:02:50PM +, Deri wrote: > On Thursday, 14 December 2023 22:35:26 GMT Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > > File examples in > > > > https://list.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2023-12/msg00013.html > > > > with subject "Groff hdtbl tables disappear near the footer". > > > >

Re: Is there a Groff showcase?

2023-12-16 Thread Nate Bargmann
Perhaps the author of the site doesn't think it would fit the site's scope but it seems to me that troff.org would be the most logical site to host such a gallery. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://

Re: Is there a Groff showcase?

2023-12-16 Thread Mike
> A showcase as like at a trade show? > I think it would be better to have easy to understand single topic prove-of-concepts samples, a bin to throw in and a whatever-grep- function for searching. My original thought was: Is there a website where the various document layouts and visual capabilit