Re: [Groff] Formatting algorithm, an experiment

2014-06-28 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 08:06:38PM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > Hello Ulrich, > [ ... ] > (But again, i personally never had a problem with the typesetting > quality of troff (with the TeX-borrowed German hyphenation > enabled), proof-reading provided -- the German translation of > K & R "Prog

Re: [Groff] Formatting algorithm, an experiment

2014-06-27 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Hello Ulrich, Ulrich Lauther wrote: |On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 03:43:24PM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> Oh, after fiddling with unsupported linker options etc. to compile |> the showcase i got a SIGBUS. You know, as in "Bus stop, wet day, |> she's there" etc. Only the umbrella is still mi

Re: [Groff] Formatting algorithm, an experiment

2014-06-27 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 03:43:24PM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > > Oh, after fiddling with unsupported linker options etc. to compile > the showcase i got a SIGBUS. You know, as in "Bus stop, wet day, > she's there" etc. Only the umbrella is still missing. > Ciao, > > --steffen Not clear to

Re: [Groff] Formatting algorithm, an experiment

2014-06-27 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Hello Ralph, Ralph Corderoy wrote: |Hi Steffen, | |>> The closest is |>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/gzip which |>> leaves the tar for the user to fathom out if left to MIME types |>> alone. |> |> [http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tika/trunk/tika-core/src/ma\ |> i

Re: [Groff] Formatting algorithm, an experiment

2014-06-27 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Steffen, > > The closest is > > http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/gzip which > > leaves the tar for the user to fathom out if left to MIME types > > alone. > > [http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tika/trunk/tika-core/src/main/resources/org/apache/tika/mime/tika-mimetypes.xml] >

Re: [Groff] Formatting algorithm, an experiment

2014-06-27 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Hello Ralph, Ralph Corderoy wrote: |Hi Peter, | |>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2014-06/bin14bGZPiUPU.bin |>> which |> |> The .bin extension issue for attachments in archived email has come up |> before. Does anyone know why lists.gnu.org is doing this and whether |> there'd

Re: [Groff] Formatting algorithm, an experiment

2014-06-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2014-06/bin14bGZPiUPU.bin > > which > > The .bin extension issue for attachments in archived email has come up > before. Does anyone know why lists.gnu.org is doing this and whether > there'd be any point trying to get it fixed? It's to prot

Re: [Groff] Formatting algorithm, an experiment

2014-06-26 Thread Ulrich Lauther
In the meantime I have send the tgz-file directly to Dough, not to the list, and he was able to read it. Waiting for comments, ulrich

Re: [Groff] Formatting algorithm, an experiment

2014-06-26 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > When I view Ulrich's email at > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2014-06/msg00089.html I see a > distribute.tgz link at the end of it to > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2014-06/bin14bGZPiUPU.bin which > works for me. The .bin extension

Re: [Groff] Formatting algorithm, an experiment

2014-06-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Doug, > Ulrich wrote, "Please find below ... my attached code." > > gnu.org reports "not found" for the strange-looking URL where the > attachment was supposedly stored: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/attachments/20140623/d3f40bfc/attachment.bin The email I received from the list h

Re: [Groff] Formatting algorithm, an experiment

2014-06-24 Thread Doug McIlroy
Ulrich wrote, "Please find below ... my attached code." gnu.org reports "not found" for the strange-looking URL where the attachment was supposedly stored: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/attachments/20140623/d3f40bfc/attachment.bin

Re: [Groff] Formatting algorithm, an experiment

2014-05-28 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Wed, May 28, 2014, Ulrich Lauther wrote: > I think, the experiment shows that running time is no issue at all. This is terrific news. One of groff's greatest strengths is speed. It will be wonderful if improved formatting can be achieved with no loss in that department. Thanks, Ulrich, for t

Re: [Groff] Formatting algorithm, an experiment

2014-05-28 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 07:44:07PM -0400, Peter Schaffter wrote: > Here's the bare bones version of the algorithm I was thinking of > when I proposed improving line formatting by getting groff to > shoulder the burden for some of the work we do manually. It's > written out in brute-force pseudo-co