RE: weird \s

2020-03-30 Thread Jennifer Sayers
Dear Everyone, Brian Kernighan's paper "A TROFF Tutorial" goes into detail about how these things were parsed back in the day and why. This is perhaps the "accident of history"? jen. From: groff [groff-bounces+jennifer.sayers=sydney.edu...@gnu.org] on b

Re: [groff] Alignment problems in pic drawing when using \X'ps: exec

2018-07-24 Thread Jennifer Sayers
Dear Everyone, Thank you very much for diagnosing my problem and solving it!  I had spent several hours trying to figure out what was going wrong.  Now I see in the pic manual that "command" outputs a *line*, which of course has an end of line character, causing the shift down the page, as has

[groff] Alignment problems in pic drawing when using \X'ps: exec

2018-07-23 Thread Jennifer Sayers
Hello!  I am trying to use a feature of groff that I haven't used before, and I'm running into a bit of trouble. I have a gpic drawing where I want to have some lines with round endcaps and some with square ones.  (So, it's not a matter of using the BP feature to set the endcap style for the w

mm problem with heading and short first paragraph

2007-02-06 Thread Jennifer Sayers
Dear Werner, I seem to have found a bug in the mm macros. If you have a heading and then a paragraph which is one short line, a following paragraph gets run into the first one (i.e. the .P in between doesn't take effect). I have this bug on 1.19.3 but it doesn't appear in 1.18.1 that came insta

Re: mm macros do not install

2007-01-08 Thread Jennifer Sayers
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 02:37:51PM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > "make install" doesn't install the mm macros from the contrib/mm > > directory. > > Thanks for the report! Thanks for the fix! It installs fine now. jen. ___ bug-groff mailing li

mm macros do not install

2007-01-05 Thread Jennifer Sayers
Happy New Year, everyone! Bug report for installation of groff 1.19.3 from the CVS. "make install" doesn't install the mm macros from the contrib/mm directory. Rough description of fix given below. ** I have traced thr