[Groff] XSL-FO to groff to PDF?

2005-10-19 Thread Michael Smith
SL-FO converters in TeX/LaTex/PDFTeX, but that has proven to be a pretty difficult taks, and those work on those apps never reached the point where they became usable for production-quality work. I wonder if it would be easier to implement an XSL-FO to PDF converter in groff, or harder. --Mike

Re: [Groff] Horizontal rule w/ length a fraction of the page width?

2005-07-15 Thread Michael Smith
Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is a very important concept if you work with groff requests and > escapes: The default scaling indicator. For \l, it is the em unit. > This: > > \l'\n(.l*.80' > > is thus handled as > > \l'\n(.lm*.80m' I see now. Before I posted I had bee

[Groff] Horizontal rule w/ length a fraction of the page width?

2005-07-13 Thread Michael Smith
What is the recommended markup for rendering a horizontal line, with the length of the horizonal line being some arbitrary fraction of the global line length (that is, the distance from the left margin to the right margin -- ll). To specify a line whose length is 80 percent of the line length, I a

Re: [Groff] Prevent hyphenation of individual words?

2005-06-30 Thread Michael Smith
Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suggest that you download an original version of the groff package > (from gnu.org), not the Debian version which is heavily patched -- > maybe the Japanese extension (which I don't support) is buggy, causing > the problems you experience. Indeed, it

Re: [Groff] Prevent hyphenation of individual words?

2005-06-30 Thread Michael Smith
Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I notice that the groff info page says this: > > > > To tell `gtroff' how to hyphenate words on the fly, use the `\%' > > escape, also known as the "hyphenation character". Preceding a > > word with this character prevents it from being hyphen

[Groff] Prevent hyphenation of individual words?

2005-06-30 Thread Michael Smith
Greetings from Tokyo. Question: What's the correct inline groff markup for preventing an individual word from being hyphenated? I notice that the groff info page says this: To tell `gtroff' how to hyphenate words on the fly, use the `\%' escape, also known as the "hyphenation character". Pr