Hi Jan,
At 2024-04-24T07:53:51+0200, Jan Eden wrote:
> On 2024-04-24 00:07, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > At 2024-04-21T23:52:48-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > For mm, what I would do is set up the mounting positions to replace
> > > Times with Helvetica.
> > >
> > > .fp 1 HR
> > > .fp 2
Hi Branden,
On 2024-04-24 00:07, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> [self-follow-up]
>
> I had forgotten about a contribution Nikita Ivanov made in 2022.
>
> At 2024-04-21T23:52:48-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > For mm, what I would do is set up the mounting positions to replace
> > Times with
Hi Branden,
On 2024-04-23 15:11, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi Jan,
>
> At 2024-04-23T10:56:38+0200, Jan Eden wrote:
> > On 2024-04-23 01:10, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > Bracket your table with the `DS` and `DE` macros.
> >
> > This works great, but there's a side effect on one of my mac
[self-follow-up]
I had forgotten about a contribution Nikita Ivanov made in 2022.
At 2024-04-21T23:52:48-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> For mm, what I would do is set up the mounting positions to replace
> Times with Helvetica.
>
> .fp 1 HR
> .fp 2 HI
> .fp 3 HB
> .fp 4 HBI
I retract this a
Hi folks,
I have been dissatisfied with groff man(7)'s SY and YS macros for a long
time. My primary grievance is one that has frustrated its uptake by
documenters of libraries: the macros are designed for synopsizing Unix
commands, not C library functions.
After working on the ncurses man pages
Hi Jan,
At 2024-04-23T10:56:38+0200, Jan Eden wrote:
> On 2024-04-23 01:10, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Bracket your table with the `DS` and `DE` macros.
>
> This works great, but there's a side effect on one of my machines:
>
> - With groff 1.23.0, the whole document is set in Helvetica (as
Hi Branden,
On 2024-04-23 01:10, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Hi Jan,
>
> At 2024-04-23T07:28:41+0200, Jan Eden wrote:
> > enclosing a table in a box avoids page breaks within the table
> > reliably for me – is it possible to get the same behaviour without the
> > box?
>
> Yes. This is what "k
Hi Thomas,
On 2024-04-23 10:14, Thomas Dupond via wrote:
> Jan Eden a écrit :
> > Unfortunately, I failed to describe my requirements properly – sorry
> > again. My document contains multiple relatively small tables, and each
> > table should appear on exactly one page (i.e. should not cross pag
Jan Eden a écrit :
> Unfortunately, I failed to describe my requirements properly – sorry
> again. My document contains multiple relatively small tables, and each
> table should appear on exactly one page (i.e. should not cross page
> boundaries).
>
> I attached sample documents and the respective
Hi Branden,
On 2024-04-23 01:59, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> The foregoing advice could probably use some fine-tuning. Is it okay to
> use *roff diversions if you let a macro package that ships with groff do
> it for you?
>
> You seem to be bumping into an anticipated issue, though.
>
> groff
Hi Jan,
At 2024-04-23T08:24:19+0200, Jan Eden wrote:
> Sorry for failing to mention that I use the tbl preprocessor,
I figured that. It takes exceptional courage and patience with tedium
to lay out tables _without_ tbl. :P
> which only has a `nokeep` option described as follows:
>
> "Don't us
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