Re: [Groff] macros in tbl

2015-04-09 Thread SGT. Garcia
On Mar 08 12:44 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi SGT, > > > latter, i want URL to appear in the table, using .UR. > > Can you show us the HTML for `groff -t -man -man-ext -Thtml > sgt.tr' where sgt.tr contains > > Before table. > .TS > tab(:); > l l. > one:line > T{ >

Re: [Groff] macros in tbl

2015-03-07 Thread SGT. Garcia
On Mar 07 17:26 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Here's three lines of output from fgrep after I indicate end of file to > tbl with Ctrl-D, shown as ^D. > > $ tbl | fgrep .UR > .TS > tab(/); > l l. > foo/bar > .UR foo:///bar > .UE > \&.UR/as text > .TE > ^D >

Re: [Groff] macros in tbl

2015-03-07 Thread SGT. Garcia
On Mar 07 17:26 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Here's three lines of output from fgrep after I indicate end of file to > tbl with Ctrl-D, shown as ^D. > > $ tbl | fgrep .UR > .TS > tab(/); > l l. > foo/bar > .UR foo:///bar > .UE > \&.UR/as text > .TE > ^D >

Re: [Groff] adding non-native font directories [Was: fontconfig]

2015-03-07 Thread SGT. Garcia
On Mar 03 20:10 -0500, SGT. Garcia wrote: > > thank you very much indeed. the fonts i wanted luckily qualified (OCR A > extended and Squarish Sans). hmm, it didn't actually. i have this on my system now: /usr/share/groff/site-font/devps/OCRAExtended and /usr/share/groff/si

Re: [Groff] macros in tbl

2015-03-07 Thread SGT. Garcia
On Mar 07 15:36 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > You can use the zero-width space character \& to stop `.' being at the > start of a line, e.g. > > \&.UR foo:///bar > \&.UE > > Cheers, Ralph. hello Ralph, do you mean this? 2014-2015::T{ It is neither this nor that while it's both this an

Re: [Groff] macros in tbl

2015-03-07 Thread SGT. Garcia
On Mar 04 20:29 -0800, Dale Snell wrote: > On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 18:41:12 -0500, in message > 20150304234112.GC654@vpn.5665sherbrooke.house, SGT. Garcia wrote: > > > short of wrapping text in a text blocks i can't use any of the macros > > in man.tmoc; in particular .

[Groff] macros in tbl

2015-03-04 Thread SGT. Garcia
hello, short of wrapping text in a text blocks i can't use any of the macros in man.tmoc; in particular .UR/.UE and .MT/ME. is this intended behaviour?

Re: [Groff] adding non-native font directories [Was: fontconfig]

2015-03-03 Thread SGT. Garcia
On Mar 03 10:28 -0800, Dale Snell wrote: > Peter Schaffter (creator of the mom macro package, which I _highly_ > recommend) i used it today for the first time actually. Peter Schaffter: i noticed something odd. when i use .PDF_WWW_LINK and .DROPCAP in the same document, the .DROPCAPS letter turn

Re: [Groff] adding non-native font directories [Was: fontconfig]

2015-03-03 Thread SGT. Garcia
On Mar 03 15:31 -0500, Peter Schaffter wrote: > If these directories do not exist, you may create them. The > site-font directory is searched by groff so there's no need to set > GROFF_FONT_PATH or use the -F flag. site-font is not overwritten by > any new groff install, so your fonts are safe.

Re: [Groff] read-only number register

2015-03-03 Thread SGT. Garcia
On Mar 02 18:07 -0800, Dale Snell wrote: > I don't know of a glossary, _per se_. The closest to one that > I've seen is the Concept Index (Appendix K) in the Groff User's > Manual. That said, you might want to read sections 5.5 and 5.6 of > said manual. Those two sections cover requests and reg

Re: [Groff] read-only number register

2015-03-03 Thread SGT. Garcia
On Mar 03 03:06 +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > for example, what's a request? > > A request is a command that is built into the the roff language, > somewhat similar to a reserved word in a programming language, > except that it can only occur after a leading dot or apostrophe > at the beginning

[Groff] adding non-native font directories [Was: fontconfig]

2015-03-03 Thread SGT. Garcia
thanks for clarifying. my question however is aiming at something different. i think i should have asked: is it possible to use any font other than the ones that come with groff. following some other pointer i came across heirloom project and some hints here and there about TROFFONTS environment va

Re: [Groff] read-only number register

2015-03-02 Thread SGT. Garcia
On Mar 03 00:40 +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > A roff document can read from the number register (for example > using the \n espace sequence) but cannot change the value of > the register (for example, assigning to it with the .nr request > won't work). > > Yours, > Ingo hello, i guess i'm look

[Groff] read-only number register

2015-03-02 Thread SGT. Garcia
... that it reads it from environment and hence it's read-only?

[Groff] read-only number register

2015-03-02 Thread SGT. Garcia
... i see that expression alot in docs/mans. what does it mean?

[Groff] fontconfig

2015-03-02 Thread SGT. Garcia
is it possible to use fontconfig font families with groff? google is failing to find anything.