Re: "division by zero" error in eqn formula

2025-05-13 Thread Tim Landscheidt
"G. Branden Robinson" wrote: > […] > I have not root-caused this issue. Here are my guesses: > 1. There is not a problem with the input document. > 2. GNU eqn's degradation process to coarse nroff-mode output is buggy > given certain inputs. > My long-term plan is to tackle this along w

"division by zero" error in eqn formula

2025-05-07 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Hi, the man page for glFrustum (and several others; available for example at https://manpages.opensuse.org/Leap-16.0/Mesa-libGL-devel/glFrustum.3gl.en.gz and attached for convenience) signal a "division by zero" error when producing text output with groff 1.23.0: | $ man ./glFrustum.3gl.en.gz > /

Macros for writing (German) letters?

2024-01-06 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Hi, as background: I have been using Apache FOP (https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/) in the past to print letters according to the German standard DIN 5008 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_5008). Since FOP is a Java application and the support for Java in Fedora is dwindling, I want to switch

Re: Raw colored ASCII/UTF art for manpages

2023-12-29 Thread Tim Landscheidt
"G. Branden Robinson" wrote: >> It should be possible to produce different output depending >> on the n or t condition. > groff's soelim(1) page does that. > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/src/preproc/soelim/soelim.1.man?h=1.23.0#n249 Ah! Very nice. Tim

Re: Raw colored ASCII/UTF art for manpages

2023-12-28 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Lennart Jablonka wrote: >>It would be very nice to add raw ASCII/UTF art to manpages. That would >>make manpages very expressive, as package maintainers will be able to >>add ASCII/UTF diagrams and/or art. Imagine your manpage showing you a >>colored text chart, logo, and what not. Groff would ad

Adjusting long lines in man pages and how to temporarily disable a warning?

2021-02-27 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Hi, the man page for rpm(8) has a section that causes a warning on display (added ".TH" here for a reproducible example): | .TH "RPM" "8" "09 June 2002" "Red Hat, Inc." | .TP | \fB--macros \fIFILELIST\fB\fR | Replace the list of macro files to be loaded. Each of the files in the colon separated