Re: Text editor with visual/mouse entry

2022-06-17 Thread Karthik Suresh
> On 17 Jun 2022, at 17:24, Deri wrote: > >  > On Friday, 17 June 2022 16:31:52 BST Karthik Suresh wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I think there was a post here a while back where a contributor mentioned > > they were using a text editor that was controlled using

Text editor with visual/mouse entry

2022-06-17 Thread Karthik Suresh
Hi, I think there was a post here a while back where a contributor mentioned they were using a text editor that was controlled using a mouse - a sort of visual entry method that could be used for eye-tracking / accessible text entry. I’m struggling to hunt down the name of the tool so was wonde

Re: End-of-sentence spacing

2020-12-19 Thread Karthik Suresh
On 19/12/2020 22:36, James K. Lowden wrote: On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 20:18:19 + Karthik Suresh wrote: I think it's also the advice Brian Kernighan gives about breaking at natural phrase points in the text as we tend to edit a phrase at a time. I hadn't heard that. Do you know

Re: End-of-sentence spacing

2020-12-19 Thread Karthik Suresh
In my opinion it is good style to start every sentence on a new source line. A piece of advice I have been happily ignoring since sometime back in the 90s. Certain kinds of texts (scientific, technical) and the ways they are to be used (e.g. one off, or formatted for multiple media types an

Re: [DRAFT] Revised groff ms manual for review

2020-11-01 Thread Karthik Suresh
You didn't say what kind of book you're talking about, unfortunately. I have a range of projects on the go but thought I would start by trying to replicate the style you see in The Unix Programming Environment. I'm aware that MOM does a lot to help with book length projects, but I'd like to

Re: [DRAFT] Revised groff ms manual for review

2020-10-31 Thread Karthik Suresh
I feel like I'm about 40% of my way through a huge update of Larry Kollar's ms.ms document, as promised earlier this year. This is very good news for people like me that are still new to troff so thanks very much. Anyway, I'd appreciate feedback, positive or negative, on the current state

Re: Groff on Windows (for PDF output)?

2020-07-22 Thread Karthik Suresh
> On 22 Jul 2020, at 22:12, Blake McBride wrote: > > Greetings, > > I am trying to get Groff working on Windows. I have looked at MinGW, > GnuWin32, and ezwinports. While some provide base Groff, none I can see > support -Tpdf. Is there any package that does support PDF output on > Window

Re: [groff] Groff output when using .2C and ms macros

2019-04-17 Thread Karthik Suresh
I've also tried inserting an extra .PP and that doesn't do anything. Actually, it does something, namely adding even more space. Remove this .PP first. The rest of the extra space is produced by the .NH macro. You can prevent this space by adding .ns before the .NH. (I wonder why this is not

[groff] Groff output when using .2C and ms macros

2019-04-17 Thread Karthik Suresh
his is happening. I've also tried inserting an extra .PP and that doesn't do anything. Any help would be much appreciated. .TL Starting From The Client's Point Of View .AU Karthik Suresh .AB This purpose of this paper is to look at how you can work your way from a client's curren