hi,
Deri James wrote on 31.10.12:
> I think Ubuntu has more than one package which supplies groff. It has groff-
> base which is a cut down version intended to view man pages and a package
> called groff which contains the full release (including mom).
indeed, thank you Deri.
ahoi
jenik
hello all, hello Peter,
i recently upgraded to ubuntu 12.04. afterwords om.tmac wouldn't be found
anymore. reason being that ubuntu had installed and groff 1.21. and the tmac
folder didn't contain moms tmac. i copied the latest version there but i am
confused. isn't groff 1.21. delivered *with* m
Werner LEMBERG wrote on 26.09.10:
> Requiescat in pace.
Very Sad. I reread some of Miklos Posts. Remembering the vivid discussion on
who, how and why groff is being maintained (the thread had "Integer
arithmetic" in its title).
Loosing active people from lists i follow closely feels like loos
Hello Chris,
Chris Schaller wrote on 12.09.10:
> Finally I recalled that I wanted to send my own macro set for writing
> letters, (hopefully) conforming to German DIN norm.
your effort is greatly appreciated. Danke vielmals!
i will report back when i've had a chance to try them out.
jan
Hello everyone,
Pierre-Jean wrote on 03.09.10:
>
>
> I've made some tests. Here is a tutorial about how to use
> OpenType fonts with groff.
Merci Pierre-Jean!
My honest respect. Of the lists I have seen this is the one with the best
ratio of low traffic, low noise, high quality, and high spir
Thanks to both of you, now i see: it *is* beautiful!
Werner LEMBERG wrote on 29.12.09:
> BTW, the necessary command line options for groff for
> file `foo' can be guessed with the `grog foo' command.
oh, good! it did show me the correct command.
jan
Hello Ted and all,
Werner LEMBERG wrote on 29.12.09:
>
> > The following draws a pretty picture, which I send you with all my best
> > wishes, hoping you had a good Christmas and will have a good New Year.
>
> Nice! I wish everybody the same.
>
> A small caution: Everyone who wants to try Ted'
--begin-momfile---
.AUTHOR "Jan-Herbert Damm"
.PRINTSTYLE TYPESET
.TITLE "Test-Document"
.PAPER A4
.HEADERS_AND_FOOTERS \
C "\E*[$TITLE]" \
L "^\E*[$AUTHOR]#\*[PAGE#]^"
.START
some text
more text
.NEWPAGE
another page
smore text
.NEWPAGE
yet anothe
Hello,
I think i accidentally sent this off list:
Peter Schaffter wrote on 14.09.09:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote:
> > The following setup seems to wipe out all Headers and Footers.
> > why?
> >
> > ### snip from cv.mom ##
>
gt; don't hesitate to ask for help.
Thanks for these Hints!
Yet i still havn't gotten it right.
The following setup seems to wipe out all Headers and Footers.
why?
### snip from cv.mom ##
.PRINTSTYLE TYPESET
.PAPER A4
.AUTHOR "Jan-Herbert Damm"
.TITLE "Curriculum
Hello,
[Peters answer:]
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote:
> > Briefly, HEADERS_AND_FOOTERS allows you to have both headers and
> > footers on the same page, and to say precisely what goes in them.
>
> I have just spent several hours trying to get this righ
Hello,
[I am posting this resulting from an off-list mail to Peter Schaffter; Peters
reply will follow as an answer to myself. Sorry for the mess.]
Peter Schaffter wrote on 19.08.09:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote:
> > I am trying to write a CV using groff -mom. I want
Hello,
Peter Schaffter wrote on 19.08.09:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote:
> > I am trying to write a CV using groff -mom. I want to have a special Header
> > and Footer to every Page.
> Briefly, HEADERS_AND_FOOTERS allows you to have both headers and
> foo
Hello,
I am trying to write a CV using groff -mom. I want to have a special Header
and Footer to every Page.
from the excellent documentation i gather that i should use the typesetting
macros (as opposed to document-processing which covers letters and chapters
etc but not special cases like CVs)
Hello,
Peter Schaffter wrote on 03.07.09:
> On Fri, Jul 03, 2009, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote:
> > Using mom makropackage for writing letters i find the way the "closing" is
> > placed (pretty far to the right on the line) unsuitable. In german letters
> > it
>
Hello,
I hope Peter Schaffter is reading, or somebody else can help with this.
Using mom makropackage for writing letters i find the way the "closing" is
placed (pretty far to the right on the line) unsuitable. In german letters it
is usually flush left.
So i thought
---
.LEFT
.CLOSING
(
Werner LEMBERG wrote on 03.07.09:
>
> > I am using groff (Peter's mom macro package) to write german texts
> > and i was asking myself just the above question: how can i tell
> > groff(mom) to hyphenate more german-language-sensible? So far my
> > solution was to simply turn off hyphenation (.HY O
Hello,
Werner LEMBERG wrote on 02.07.09:
>
> > Is there a way to make nroff process Russian documents correctly and
> > with hyphenation?
>
> Yes.
>
> . Select an 8-bit encoding [...]
>
> . Set up a mapping [...]
>
> . Write a language support file which defines a hyphenation
> lang
Hello,
thank you everybody for this very interesting thread!!
as someone who came to groff via it's makro-sets (mom in my case): may i ask
for a short indication on how to accomplish this (or where to find it in TFM):
> > last not least: groff can produce reasonably formatting of ASCII
> > docu
walter harms wrote on 10.04.09:
>
>
> Chris Schaller schrieb:
> > Nope. Is this considered a bug? It's just about proper vim settings.
> >
> > - Chris
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:25 AM, walter harms wrote:
> >>
> >> Chris Schaller schrieb:
> >>> Jan,
> >>>
> >>> encountered this one, too.
Chris Schaller wrote on 08.04.09:
> encountered this one, too. What's your fileencoding in vim (:set
> fileencoding?). You might want to try to set it either to utf-8 or
> latin-1. Latter worked for me despite having encoding set to utf-8. So
> you are experiencing a vim configuration issue here..
Larry Kollar wrote on 08.04.09:
>
> Jan-Herbert Damm wrote:
>
>> I like to use "groff -mom" for typesetting. Recently i set up a new
>> system
>> changing the locale from iso-8859-1 to utf8. I use vim to write
>> texts.
>> German umlauts now pr
Dear List,
if somebody can tell me where to start digging into the following problem i am
grateful:
I like to use "groff -mom" for typesetting. Recently i set up a new system
changing the locale from iso-8859-1 to utf8. I use vim to write texts.
German umlauts now produce the following errormess
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