A diagram in the manual of "soelim(1)" shows that the pipeline is
soelim | preprocessors ...
but an actual pipeline with "preconv"
(groff -mandoc -s -K utf8 -V input) is
preconv -eutf8 input | soelim | troff -mandoc -Tps | grops
Using the soelim(1) order the pipeline becomes
soelim inpu
Follow-up Comment #7, bug #66103 (group groff):
[comment #1 comment #1:]
> Use of a colon is poor grammar when the ensuing list fails to
> exhibit sentence-ending punctuation,
Avoiding such constructions is a valid style choice, but it's hard to justify
calling it poor grammar when respected styl
Hello,
I've been trying to do something as simple as drawing a triangle
filled with some color with gpic and so far I spectacularly failed.
I don't see any way to draw an arbitrary (shaded) polygon with gpic,
but it's do-able with groff directly: \D'P x1 y1 x2 y2'. So, I did
a groff macro… that I
At 2024-09-12T15:55:02+0200, Jan Eden wrote:
> The meaning of the German equivalents "Anwendung" (use) and
> "Anwendungsfall" (use case) are clearly distinguished, with the former
> referring to an activity, the latter to the outlines of a potential
> activity.
Now I want a time machine (and fluen
At 2024-09-12T09:46:34-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> There it festered, right in the middle of Branden's otherwise high
> literary style: "use cases".
I appreciate the compliment, but as a working class American, I would
mourn the loss of my lowbrow entertainments. No sophisticated East
Coast ba
On 2024-09-12 09:46, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> There it festered, right in the middle of Branden's otherwise high literary
> style: "use cases". I've despaired over the term ever since it wormed its
> way into computer folks' vocabulary. How does a "use case" differ from a
> "use"? Or, what's the u
There it festered, right in the middle of Branden's otherwise high literary
style: "use cases". I've despaired over the term ever since it wormed its
way into computer folks' vocabulary. How does a "use case" differ from a
"use"? Or, what's the use of "use case"?
And while I'm despairing, "concate
