Re: New Chapter within an MM document

2020-12-20 Thread Bob Diertens
On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 02:20:57PM +1100, Damian McGuckin wrote: > > Within an MM document, a level 1 heading like > > .H 1 "Heading" > > is rendered as > > 4. Heading > > Often, it is forced to a new page using > > .nr Ej 1 > > I would like also to currently force it to >

Re: [groff] Gpresent version 2.4 Released

2017-11-16 Thread Bob Diertens
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 06:56:59AM -0500, Mike Bianchi wrote: > Also, the piclink buttons in the lower left corner does not seem to work. Mmm, they work with me. Can you give me more info. gr, Bob

Re: [groff] * SL * Gpresent version 2.4 Released

2017-11-16 Thread Bob Diertens
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 06:53:10AM -0500, Mike Bianchi wrote: > The PAUSE sometimes does not work? > The file demo.pdf in the package reads in part ... > > You can also use the PAUSE macro in a table. > AT&T Common Stock > Year Price D

[groff] Gpresent version 2.4 Released

2017-11-16 Thread Bob Diertens
Hi All, Long overdue but finally there. Gpresent v2.4 is available from https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/b.diertens/useful/gpresent/ DESCRIPTION gpresent is a package for making presentations with groff and acroread. It consist of a set of macros to be used with groff and a post-proces

Re: [Groff] which refer(1) field to use for edition

2012-09-14 Thread Bob Diertens
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:08:26AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > From groff-bounces+mexas=bristol.ac...@gnu.org Fri Sep 14 01:02:45 2012 > > Anton -- > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > I need to add book edition to a refer database entry. >

Re: [Groff] RE: Small bug in groff 1.19.2 footnote number contro

2007-09-20 Thread Bob Diertens
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 05:48:58PM +0200, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > > Well, there's specifying a second argument to the FD macro > > which causes the footnote counter to get reset at each > > first-level heading, but that appears to be just as > > undocumented. > > >From HP's "Text Formatting Us

Re: [Groff] Integral signs

2007-02-28 Thread Bob Diertens
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 01:42:38PM +1100, Miklos Somogyi wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I need some integral signs with circles/ellipses around them (e.g. for > control volumes). > I've experimented a lot but only got something that is just acceptable > in print, > but downright ughhly in Preview and

Re: [Groff] "creep" and booklets

2005-11-04 Thread Bob Diertens
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:21:17PM -, Ted Harding wrote: > On 04-Nov-05 Bob Diertens wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:01:12AM -, Ted Harding wrote: > >> > >> [ ... ] > > > > You can easily do this by manipulating the PostScript f

Re: [Groff] "creep" and booklets

2005-11-04 Thread Bob Diertens
helps, Bob ---begin creep--- #!/usr/bin/perl # # Enjoy: Bob Diertens, 11/04/2005 if ($#ARGV != 0) { die "usage: $0 \n"; } $creep_incr = shift; $pagecount = 0; $creep = 0; while (<>) { print; if (/^%%Page:/) { if ($pagecount % 2) { print "

Re: [Groff] Centering pictures and captions with mm

2005-10-25 Thread Bob Diertens
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 05:27:22PM +0200, Daniel de Kok wrote: > Hi, > > I have a fairly newbie-ish question about the mm marcos. I have some > pictures that I would like to center. To keep the captions of the image on > the same page, I have enclosed the picture and display in a block. The > p