Set page length to a very long distance? Perhaps using the max integer
possible in groff?
--d
On Wednesday, January 20, 2021, 11:36:35 AM EST, James K. Lowden
wrote:
How do I show "infinite" tables in nroff? When the tbl output doesn't
fit on one "page", I get:
$ nroff -t foo
err
I've updated https://gitlab.com/ds26gte/zdutf8 with a modifed devps/ZD file
that can be used to shadow the system devps/ZD.
(The COPYRIGHT file is just the boilerplate file Branden sent me. This is
really Tadziu Hoffmann's baby.)
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On Monday, January 18, 2021, 10:18:12 PM ES
Thanks, Tadziu!
Indeed, it works splendidly with a modified copy of devps/ZD located in a local
font directory so the system devps/ZD is not affected.
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On Monday, January 18, 2021, 03:58:46 PM EST, Tadziu Hoffmann
wrote:
> Actually, thank you for independently confirming that t
the decimal value of a hex input as to
cover all characters of that font.
If you need just a handful of characters, I think this is the easiest
way; you can pack all ".ds hex dec" definitions in a small file which
you call with
.so myhextodec_lut.roff
Oliver.
On 18/01/2021 02:5
I'm trying to access a code point in a non-Unicode font, namely the ITC Zapf
Dingbats font that comes with groff. E.g., the code point 0x6E in Dingbats is a
black square, and so far I see no way of using the hex number directly to
typeset a black square. I have to convert it to 110 decimal, e.g
