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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 07:14:17 +0100
From: Hans Bezemer
To: Norwid Behrnd
Subject: Re: On bonds, arrows and space, was: Slight alteration to back bond
of chem.pic
Dear Norwid,
Using your ChemDraw example document as a reference I've made up th
On Fri, 14 Mar 2025, dvalin--- via GNU roff typesetting system discussion wrote:
It seriously looks like the most productive way forward is to go back to
raw troff, or failing to find the secret sauce there, look for a more
robust utility - sufficiently documented to allow basic work.
Did you
At 2025-03-14T04:52:59+, dvalin--- via GNU roff typesetting system
discussion wrote:
> The attached "sample.groff" does not flow together lines, following a
> .PP, expected to compile a paragraph. Yet going the whole .RP trip,
> for conformity's sake, in groff_primer.ms, *does* spuriously flow
The attached "sample.groff" does not flow together lines, following a .PP,
expected to compile a paragraph. Yet going the whole .RP trip, for conformity's
sake, in groff_primer.ms, *does* spuriously flow together successive \n
terminated lines *without* a .PP or .LP, and that's even more useless
On Fri, 14 Mar 2025, Damian McGuckin wrote:
Also, how do I change the colour of text please?
Sorted out colors.
Thanks - Damian
Hi dvalin,
At 2025-03-14T01:36:13+, dvalin--- via GNU roff typesetting system
discussion wrote:
> I'm not sure if this list accepts attachments? That might be an
> interim workaround?
It does, and it's probably a good idea for *roff files.
I'll attempt to demonstrate with the manual for gro
On Mon Mar 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM CET, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> You can make a soft link, like
>
> cd .../font/devps
>
> ( is
Every empty line in the input will also result in an empty line
in the output and will thus inhibit filling of text. Make sure
you don't have any empty lines in your input file.
I'm just mentioning this because your emails here on the list
are showing up with an empty line following every line
On 12.03.25 23:31, Dave Kemper wrote:
> Hi, and welcome to the world of groff!
Thank you. Each new utility is an adventure, even if more than a little
perplexing at the outset.
> Tackling your second issue first:
...
> To get italics in basic troff, try this:
> This is
> .ft I
> italic stu
Thank you!
> The reason is because grops only embeds fonts in the postscript if
> there is an appropriate entry in its download file, otherwise the font
> is listed as a "needed resource" (rather than a "provided resource").
Does it mean that I could fix this by listing the URW fonts in
grops/dow
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