"Eric S. Raymond" writes:
>Doug McIlroy :
>> Perhaps Gnu's most egregious contribution to Unix
>> was to turn texinfo with its paleolithic interface
>> into the "complete" documentation with man pages as
>> stubs.
>
>You will be pleased to hear, then, that RMS and I have been
>discussing specific
Deri James writes:
>I have, so far, kept silent on future direction for groff, since my
>own use for groff is probably very rare, so my opinion should not
>carry much weight. I use groff as a typesetting engine called from a
>front end which produces a troff file which is then passed to groff to
Colin Watson writes:
>Perhaps just:
>
> tmp=$d/eqn2graph$${$RANDOM:+-$RANDOM}
>
>then?
Since it's not guaranteed to be present, why not just ignore $RANDOM
and use our own randomly generated integer instead? Something like:
groff_rand=$(dd if=/dev/urandom bs=8 count=1 2>/dev/null | sum
Robert Marks writes:
>Actually, how is troff pronounced? Troff? T-roff?
>And groff? Hardly G-roff but possible.
When I first encountered them in the '80s, they were pronounced
n-roff and t-roff, so those names stuck and thus groff became
g-roff when it came along a bit later.
Tet
"Bernd Warken" writes:
>.PSPIC is documented in groff_tmac(5). It is supposed to load an EPS-file.
>That should work in the troff modes. In tty-modes and in X-mode it is not
>possible to show the EPS-file, so only a box with the file name is generated.
>
>But that does not work.
Works for me.
