>
> Are you offering to donate your labor in terms of typeface design, or will
> it be a type of deal where the community will need to collectively pitch in
> money to cover the cost of you doing it professionally?
I only meant "professional" insofar as aptitude with graphics is concerned.
I won'
John Gardner wrote:
> I'm a professional graphic designer with access to commercial typeface
> authoring software. Send me the highest-quality and most comprehensive
> scans of a C/A/T-printed document, and I'll get to work.
Are you offering to donate your labor in terms of typeface design, or
wi
Hi Alex,
At 2024-01-17T21:06:30+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Branden,
>
> I just saw some function in groff that looks like gnulib's xasprintf().
> You may want to just use that instead, or at least rename it to
> my_xasprintf() to be more clear about what it is.
Most of grohtml was writt
Hi Branden,
I just saw some function in groff that looks like gnulib's xasprintf().
You may want to just use that instead, or at least rename it to
my_xasprintf() to be more clear about what it is.
$ grepc -B8 make_string .
./src/preproc/html/pre-html.cpp-/*
./src/preproc/
>
> This assumes you know both the desired font and the desired colour, which
> might be defined at other places in the document and not under your control.
Yeah, I know. I was trying to gauge how Groff's escape sequences might
benefit an \X'…' sequence, and the PostScript I gave was a
contrived
> https://usenet.trashworldnews.com/?thread=614089 posted February 1988
> Perl Kit, Version 1.0, Copyright (c) 1987, Larry Wall
Excuse my Roff,[1] but holy f\*(&#g shit. Is this where it all started? Did
one of my favourite programming languages begin with this very newsgroup
post? D—amn. Thanks f
> > \fB\s(12\m[red]\X'ps: big bold red text in my device command'\fP
> \X'ps: exec 1.0 0 0 setrgbcolor /Times-Bold findfont \n[.s] scalefont setfont
> (Text) show'
This assumes you know both the desired font and the desired
color, which might be defined at other places in the document
and not u
https://usenet.trashworldnews.com/?thread=614089 posted February 1988
Perl Kit, Version 1.0, Copyright (c) 1987, Larry Wall
"G. Branden Robinson" writes:
[snip]
> (Which isn't to say that one _can't_ write safe code using K&R C; my
> fear is that having to remember all of the things the compiler won't do
> for you would overwhelm the task at hand. Too bad Unix V7 didn't have
> Perl, since this is basically a text tr
Larry wrote it for admin help of his 4.1 BSD vaxen at NASA. (Which was
PCC based compiler K&R1 syntax). I do not remember if any one tried to
get it running on the 11 because of address space issues. As Brad says you
can check all usenet files.
Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usua
...and another thing!
At 2024-01-18T01:22:53+1100, John Gardner wrote:
> I'll probably need you to review any shims I write for any C89+
> stdio(3) functions that don't exist in V7's C compiler (which is
> surprisingly limited)…
You might consider, as an initial step, just not bothering with st
At 2024-01-18T01:22:53+1100, John Gardner wrote:
> > If you don't have my scan of CSTR #54 (1976) […] let me know and
> > I'll send it along.
>
> I have a copy named CSTR_54_1976.pdf with a SHA256 checksum of
> 71d8592991635966cc86a184d7a5b07163298a53c2a900fa0e9bf1a3eabeeb7d. Is
> this it?
Yup, s
Hi John,
At 2024-01-18T00:43:41+1100, John Gardner wrote:
> I'm a professional graphic designer with access to commercial typeface
> authoring software. Send me the highest-quality and most comprehensive
> scans of a C/A/T-printed document, and I'll get to work.
If you don't have my scan of CSTR
>
> If you don't have my scan of CSTR #54 (1976) […] let me know and I'll send
> it along.
I have a copy named CSTR_54_1976.pdf with a SHA256 checksum of
71d8592991635966cc86a184d7a5b07163298a53c2a900fa0e9bf1a3eabeeb7d. Is this
it?
It's decent-enough quality, but I wanted to check to make sure th
Hi John,
At 2024-01-18T00:32:04+1100, John Gardner wrote:
> So instead of:
> > \X'ps: \fB\s(12\m[red]big bold red text in my device command\fP'
> >
> > one would write:
> > \fB\s(12\m[red]\X'ps: big bold red text in my device command'\fP
>
> I believe you meant to provide an example more like thi
Hi Mychaela,
*My feeling is that the task would require hiring a professional typeface
> designer*
I'm a professional graphic designer with access to commercial typeface
authoring software. Send me the highest-quality and most comprehensive
scans of a C/A/T-printed document, and I'll get to work.
Hi Branden,
So instead of:
> \X'ps: \fB\s(12\m[red]big bold red text in my device command\fP'
>
> one would write:
> \fB\s(12\m[red]\X'ps: big bold red text in my device command'\fP
I believe you meant to provide an example more like this?
\X'ps: exec 1.0 0 0 setrgbcolor /Times-Bold findfont \n
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