Re: [Groff] Why is it...

2007-12-15 Thread David A. Case
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007, Michael Kerpan wrote: > ...that groff/troff seems to be written off by so many as "obsolete" > and "only useful for man pages", despite the fact that it can do > everything that TeX/LaTeX (seemingly the favored non-WYSIWYG document > processor) can do but while taking up 3 me

Re: [Groff] groff Image Formats

2007-10-17 Thread David A. Case
> > > Any idea why groff could not accept an eps file generated by > > Acrobat? I would have thought that Adobe's own product would turn > > out proper code. > I pretty routinely use eps2eps to "clean up" EPS files created by Acrobat or Adobe Illustrator. This seems often to be required for Gh

Re: [Groff] groff html output, eqn and journals

2007-03-13 Thread David A. Case
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007, Frank Jahnke wrote: > I have a paper set in groff, and I wish to submit it to a journal for > publication. Their standard line is to submit in DOC or RTF formats; It might be worth your time to explore alternatives to the "standard line". See if you can talk to someone at t

Re: [Groff] Missing characters/glyphs in a font

2006-03-18 Thread David A. Case
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006, someone wrote: > > (And how come they went to all the trouble of making a German font > > without including an umlaut or umlauted vowels, or the German ss?) Could it be that the font was intended to provide extra symbols for mathematical equations, and was not designed for o