fore this request makes it to my machines,
but I'm looking forward to it.
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le
that's not obvious from its pathname, than put the description in
a metadata file, like README or filecontents, or something.
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E-m
act that groff(7)
> misses, too.
This is news to me. Does it mean that the default page length
automatically creates a trap? Or does .ne have a side effect?
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onts at a time. I think
that it actually signalled the operator in the middle of a job
when a new font was needed (that's a vague memory).
In any case, I think it was common for publications to use more
fonts than a machine could handle at one time. Lots of things
were patched in at p
On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 03:29:28PM -0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> Subject: paragraph-at-once breaking algorithm (was: Re: *roff hyphenation
> trivia challenge)
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 2:23 PM Steve Izma wrote:
> > I used TeX and LaTeX [...] and the oversetting of lines
On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 01:29:05PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Subject: Re: *roff hyphenation trivia challenge
>
> At 2024-04-02T13:42:59-0400, Steve Izma wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 06:51:51PM +0200, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> > > Subject: Re: *roff hyph
I would add
.hw antidisestablishmentarianism
to the document once (or, preferably, to a local tmac file used
for the project).
This may not be important for man page authors, but it's very
important in a production environment.
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> Subject: Re: the Courier font family and nroff history
>
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2024, Steve Izma wrote:
> > I tend to believe that Linotype was the driving force in the
> > release of a complete package for corpo
ged in a house fire a few months ago.
Otherwise I would have done due diligence and checked these
memories more thoroughly.
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The most erroneous stories are tho
ed character as
utf-8 I got the same problem as you indicated.
Using -K utf8 solves it. I guess I rarely have files with only a
single example of a utf-8 character. I use the utf-8 open and
closing double quotes very frequently so that probably makes the
difference to preconv.
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ay switch?
Also, I think it would be useful to switch trays -- e.g., from
plain paper to glossy paper -- in mid-document for the output of
high-quality images on the same size of paper. That would make
something like a "\X'ps: papertray xx'" or "\X'ps: InputSlot=xx
tall it, due to internal
> inconsistencies. If anybody has had recent success installing
> any PostScript reader on a PC, I'd like to hear about it.
Okular on Debian 11 still reads my PostScript files. I continue
to use grops in all my groff work (almost every day).
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y justified. I'm glad it's finally out in the world. Thank you
> for your tireless work in making groff more featureful, more portable,
> better documented, and less buggy.
Yes, all this work is very much appreciated. Thanks again.
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Brian Kernighan's "Unix: A History and a Memoir", which
was thoroughly enjoyable to read. (Lots of good stories about
Doug McIlroy in it, as well.)
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r me to internalize.
>
> > As two data points, these are the definitions used by
> > typography expert Robert Bringhurst (as quoted long ago on
> > this list by Steve Izma
> > (http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2004-03/msg00091.html), himself
> > a knowledgeable and experienced typo
On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 02:29:04PM -0400, Steve Izma wrote:
> Subject: Re: drawing commands have no impact on diversion height
>
> On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 01:35:22PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Subject: drawing commands have no impact on diversion height
> >
>
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> Subject: Re: drawing commands have no impact on diversion height
> At 2023-06-08T14:29:04-0400, Steve Izma wrote:
>
> > *But* the ending of the diversion seemed to swallow the EOL of the
> > diversion&#
x trailer
V792000
x stop
shows that \D't .5p' has a width of 500 units, which is output as
a 500-unit space. For as long as I can remember, I've needed to
use this instead:
\Z'\D't .5p''\D'l \n[.l]u 0'
I'm pretty sure this anomaly has been discu
o the diversion (see attached PS
file). If I add a .br immediately after the .DD, I get the
expected results, but that seems unnecessary and unpredictable to
me, almost as if a .chop got silently applied by .di
Using groff 1.22.4 on Debian Bullseye.
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ize the parts of the
project into sub-directories and just use fairly simple shell
scripts to process them. I've considered using make, but long ago
got into the habit of shell scripts.
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putting troff source files into a tr
subdirectory of your project directory. That keeps the main
project directory uncluttered.
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cell (text only; not frequently check
cument. That shouldn't be too hard. It might be a lot easier if
someone would convert groff into libraries for something like
python. That would probably be more efficient in handling the
display than using pipes between processes.
I'd love to have a python-groff module. It would simpl
arge corporations. They weren't happy about that,
but their financial circumstances were difficult. As Liam says,
their SGML and XML editors and tools later became more important.
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ased on block devices" is much less
mind-boggling.
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The most erroneous stories are those we think
r position, then sets traps so that the current text
flow moves around the output block. This is for occasions where
the output block needs to be always positioned in a particular
place and isn't really related to a position in the text flow
(banners, mastheads, ads, among other things).
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led. On debian systems,
"apt search x" results are displayed with the the opposite logic
-- "installed" is added for the appropriate result. I've only
noticed this in the last few years on debian systems, but I'm
very glad it's there.
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manager database but assumes that a
"real" operating system must restrict the user's freedom to
configure a set of utilities as are locally needed. Sounds
proprietary to me.
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the "gee-roff" camp.
>
> I'm an n-roff, t-roff, g-roff guy. I still have the docs that I got from
> UW-Madison in about 1982 from the CS department, nroff, troff, eqn, pic.
> Still useful today.
Maybe this is a locale issue as well -- that group of people with
a long
erworked punctuation in English prose and would
benefit from unionization and a shorter work week.
For improving clarity (always a good thing), I would avoid the
abbreviations, as you suggest:
> such as (not e.g. or for example)
> and
> that is (not i.e.)
> and
>
lled. That's an almost
theological concept. Is that documented anywhere? Are there other
instances where we can expect something to be created from
nothing (i.e., without explicit definition)?
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assemble and reassemble the
> font). The only thing I added are some name strings.
Thanks very much!
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I have al
reserve
white space and when do you want it ignored; how flexible can you
make the parsing so that you can place the markup less
obtrusively in the file to improve the readability of the
content; etc. I'd prefer to have these kinds of discussions
rather than complaining about how bad everyone e
nd on account of that anything coded in Docbook is salvageable
by all future generations of archeologists, although I'm glad I
won't be around to help them out.
I'm definitely going to continue to use simple XML to store
anything I want the future to see.
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On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 08:20:54PM -0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> Subject: Re: Groff vs Heirloom troff (was Re: Quick question: how to do
> .index in groff?)
>
> On 7/31/20, Steve Izma wrote:
> > When I adjust the kerning (or mortising, if necessary)
> > in values
o
high-quality typography.
I should also point out that I think the TeX community is a
wonderful group of people. I attended their annual conference a
few years ago when it occurred in Toronto and had a really good
time. Collaborating and exchanging typographical ideas with them
would be of grea
ned differently in groff depending
on circumstances? A URL quite possibly breaks assumptions about
words that might be rooted in the early 1970s.
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cell (text only;
y want the presentation of my writing to be as
inviting as possible. Using the --help option on a command line
is my preferred way to scan but, of course, when I need more
detail about an option your suggestion makes good sense.
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> Subject: Re: Groff macro to make .UR and .UE links clickable in PDF?
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 11:26:46AM -0400, Steve Izma wrote:
> > I think it's an abomination that a man page extends it's line
> >
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 06:39:32PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> Subject: Re: Groff macro to make .UR and .UE links clickable in PDF?
>
> * On 2020 10 Jul 10:27 -0500, Steve Izma wrote:
> > I think it's an abomination that a man page extends it's line
> > length t
causes awkward line breaks. Not a huge deal, but
> then again, 78 isn't that bad for readability either, in particular
> given that there is a left margin of five display columns for mdoc(7)
> and seven display columns for man(7) by default.
Yes, that's a good point about l
ely to survive the
disappearance of a website or the relocation of pages.
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I have always felt the necessity to v
character maximum width. It's interesting
that the Python Style Guide insists on a maximum line length of
79 characters and recommends 72. A basic premise of python design
is *readability of code*. The main source of authors for man
pages is, I assume, programmers.
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:.org/etc,
since it's usually better to have the period start the next line
in order to emphasize that it's a continuation of the URL rather
than the end of a sentence. This might be considered a case of
choosing the least ugly solution.
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se them at all but to cite printed material rather than
online material, or give complete bibliographic information
about the citation and a short reference to the home page of
the site.
One of the key issues is that a printed work is very likely to
outlast the accuracy of a URL, so don'
ular place on the page, then move to that place
and output the diversion's contents.
In order to prevent partially filled lines going in at the
beginning of the diversion, I normally begin a new environment
at the start of the diversion. An alternative is to use .box
instead of .di.
-- S
diversions have
nothing to do with page traps. The contents of a diversion aren't
output until the diversion is explicityly called. I don't see any
code to that effect implied or explicit here.
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th an alias or shell one-liner really
> doesn't warrant its own executable.
Your humble opinion is concisely stated; I agree with it.
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cell (text only; not f
ipt (as previously suggested) or something similar to make
a modern version.
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I have always felt the
as
implemented for groff the very sophisticated debugging trace
output that sqtroff provided. But groff has been significantly
enhanced since then.
Hope this fills in some historical gaps.
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On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 02:04:57PM -0400, Mike Bianchi wrote:
> Subject: Re: amusing bug
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 01:37:22PM -0400, Steve Izma wrote:
> > :
> > For a description of a real antediluvian habit, there's a short
> > video somewhere (I can't
com/playlist?list=PLzH6n4zXuckqZ90zLyy36qjO5YIn1RulG>.
For a description of a real antediluvian habit, there's a short
video somewhere (I can't find it now) of him talking about why he
doesn't need the Internet while crossing the Atlantic by ship.
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he second way is generally preferable.
Very good point.
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I have always felt the necessity to verify what to many seemed a
simple multi
little clearer?:
\l'\n[.l]u'
It seems to me that using 'u' for units works for every command
that takes a linear measurement and number registers always store
values as units.
Am I missing an advantage to your suggested style?
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being a
filter, but I can't remember where I got the "filter" terminology
from.
And can anyone tell me why Donald Knuth did not design TeX this
way? This has always puzzled me and is the main reason I rarely
use it.
Thanks,
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" of SoftQuad, but I doubt very much that that was ever
the case. I do know that there was significant communication
between him and the SoftQuad technical people during the time
that he developed groff.
Hardly, I'd say, a niche implementation.
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ther
> troffs in widespread use at the time (ca. 1985)?
That's about the time that SoftQuad troff got off the ground, but
my old manual (dated 1988) doesn't list a .ny request.
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One other point is made by Dr. Grinspoon with a quotation from
Archibald MacLeish, and it seems the most important consideration
of a
n't handle all
possible situations), but since I'm no longer editing the content
all this extra markup isn't interfering with reading the text.
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ional way of formatting the text for others
to correct it (e.g., additional line spacing, wider margins for
notes).
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A: Because it messes
ehind the code is essential for progress.
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Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first
place. Therefore, if you write the code a
d breaks,
Also very useful.
> Please do not remove the -a option.
I agree. I think it should stay.
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A: Because it messes up the order in w
. But I also frequently need to run a complete version of
such large books and I doubt that WYSIWYG programs would be
noticeably faster.
My experience leads me to believe that groff with either stripped
or non-stripped macro packages is no impediment to typographical
productivity.
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. Can you explain your preference for
PostScript a little further?
Thanks,
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally re
On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 12:33:12AM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Subject: Re: [Groff] Regarding HTML rendering
>
> Steve Izma wrote on Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 04:52:56PM -0400:
>
> > A relatively simple notation like Markdown would also work,
>
> I agree with all yo
but still insert special
typographical instructions either as processing instructions (a
last resort) or as attributes to a tag. For example to track kern
a paragraph I'll use something like and have my
XML parser pass the attribute name and value to the paragraph
macro.
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; or programmability, or something
like that) just seems uninteresting and obscure to those
dominating the graphic arts industry today.
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A: Becau
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:21:37PM -0400, Steve Izma wrote:
> Subject: Re: [Groff] groff performance in respect to hardware platform
>
>> ... But I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if groff benefits
>> from running on multiple CPU cores and multiple CPUs.
>> I assu
ok is tedious. That's why I'm interested in processing
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-postin
e sort
of a power-to-cost ratio, but the math needed for this isn't
obvious to me.
I'm also interested in bitmap editing (gimp) and batch processing
of bitmaps using convert (imagemagick) or python, but groff is my
main concern. Any advice?
Thanks,
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sn't a blockquote
() or an epigraph () but needs special spacing:
Text
At worst, you can use a processing instruction to force a
typographical intervention, and that allows you to instruct the
parser to ignore the tag for other purposes:
could tell groff to start a new page, fairly
small caps, I think, can work for authors' names or
running heads in text sizes smaller than the regular text without
seeming to be shouting.
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is going to implement one of the
> suggested solutions: It seems that a poll is needed...
I agree with Ralph.
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foo")&(!\\n(.$=2) ...
>
> is possible?
This is something I'd really like to see. As far as I know, at
this point such an expression can be numerical only.
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me that everything would work much more smoothly if
the underline was actually part of the glyph rather than a
superimposition of two glyphs.
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tory of Medicine 1971.
.br
.di
.if \n[dn]>\n[.t] .bp
.nf
.bib
.fi
This assumes that the next trap is the end-of-page (or column)
trap.
Am I making the right assumptions about what you need here?
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the
> mission statement, as an illustration of how groff turns what you write
> into what you get?
That sounds like a good idea to me.
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of troff in use today,
One very minor quibble: you don't need the hyphen after "widely".
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;re seriously inhibiting hyphenation...
I think many publishers (including the ones I work for) do not
like leaving two letters of a word before or after a break.
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s I've mentioned before; it's much faster to
do it in groff.
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A: Because it messes
nt enough to keep it like this
which, in my system, is equivalent to:
.h1((
This is a long subhead that
can go on as may lines as I want, if
I'm inelegant enough to keep it like this
.h1))
There are a number of other arguments for having opening and
closing macros for an element (even f
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 07:01:48PM -, Ted Harding wrote:
> Subject: Re: [Groff] Mission statement, second draft
>
> On 19-Mar-2014 05:11:33 Steve Izma wrote:
> > But even besides this, TeX is not a filter (so it does play well
> > with other filters) and is very nois
ts of text.
The SoftQuad people put me on to this:
.de h1((
.code ...
..
.de h1))
.ending code ...
..
.de p((
.set a first line indent & handle other stuff
..
.de p)
.br
.maybe unset some stuff
..
and so on. There are so many good examples around of the
underlying algorithms for page breakin
comma to a phrase),
but more like an operator between two parallel clauses -- like
the boolean "and" and "or" between expressions. So it's related
to but independent of its surroundings, and using the currently
available stretchable word spaces clarify that rela
ch other than they do to the rest of the words
in the phrase they are part of, so pulling them together makes
them look almost like a compound word, especially if the spaces
on the line are stretched.
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don't see any reason why a dash can't
begin a line; it still retains its function as a separation or
introduction to a new phrase.
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ind the source of and fix problems
so quickly has not only amazed me over the years, it's often
helped me to get my typographical work done on time. Thanks
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Shell (pdksh under linux). But "<<< word" is called a "Here
string" in the bash man page. It's also included in the Mir BSD
Korn Shell, which looks like it's going to be the universal
replacement for pdksh. The above "echo foo | ..." looks more
logica
;t been able to get comfortable
with the syntax for positioning adjustments.
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s.
Thanks for the above example, Tadziu. Is there an option to
resize and crop the input image? That's the main reason I'm
trying to use convert, which works with grops if I don't try to
reduce file size with the eps2: flag.
Thanks,
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; output. As far as
I can tell, the output conforms to PS LanguageLevel 2 (flagged by
the "eps2:" prefix in the convert commandline).
Is there some other flag or option I've overlooked?
Thanks,
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art from all the typographical issues he raises, I think it
shows how groff is a superior utility because it's a programming
language, entirely unlike WYSIWYG systems.
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includes a
python script for XML parsing is blindingly fast. On my three- or
four-year-old computers I can process a 200 page book in a few
seconds. This means, using vi, for example, that you can make a
correction in a file, hit a memory key that runs the groff
pipeline, and have a postscript
bilities. The so-called justification routines
used in ePubs is horrendous (they don't bother with hyphenation,
unless the broken word from the original print version has been
inadvertently left in).
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ate your efforts, Werner. Thanks and all
the best for the new year.
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A: Because it messes up the
ing the register from
within a macro. If you don't, you get the current position at the
time that the macro is being defined, which is likely to be before
any output has occurred. The current position on a page before
any output or any breaks is always -1, i.e., a value less than
zero. The po
nly difference between
that file in 1.20.1 and the previous version is the removal of a
comment character before \patterns{. Is there something else I
should be checking? Does it have anything to do with utf-8 or
preconv?
Thanks,
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d earlier that I've used this version
since September on hundreds of pages and it works well
and definitely solved the hyphenation/kerning problems I had.
Thanks again.
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of the mailing list); I think all you need to do is start a new
environment before resetting the indent (or doing anything else
that causes a break). The main text will be buffered. However,
the indent will occur a line earlier then in your current
situation.
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your observation, and I'll debug the problem soon.
>
> This is fixed now in the CVS, I hope. The patch changes just a single
> digit (see below). Please test.
> ...
Thanks very much, Werner, it appears to work now. I'll do more
thorough testing over the next two days.
ry.
But why should pair kerning matter in the hyphenation procedure?
Or am I missing something here?
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