Greetings,
There is an interesting program for Android devices that allows one to
create, view, and print LaTeX documents on Android tablets. It works
really well and is very convenient. Their product is VerbTeX. However,
I'd often prefer Groff/MM. What they have done is actually pretty simple
Karee, Srinivas wrote:
I care about the font/bold/italics as this is a document which will be
sent to the customer and we cannot afford to send a plain text
document
to customers. Today we are sending a formatted document with all bold
headings (multiple subsections), italic content and use
When I was a technical writer and learning products engineer
at Hewlett-Packard, one of the big challenges was to get
writers to understand *structure* instead of *appearance*.
They would gut hung up, especially in HTML, over instead
of or instead of , not understanding the
difference between a
On Monday 20 August 2007 19:03, Meg McRoberts wrote:
> you have to create a PostScript file ...
Actually, you don't.
> and then convert the ps file to PDF:
>
> groff -mandoc -st > .ps
> ps2pdf .ps .pdf
groff -mandoc -st | ps2pdf - .pdf
will have exactly the same ultimate effect, witho
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 12:29:08PM -0700, Meg McRoberts wrote:
> I am rapidly getting in over my head here, but one thought is that,
> since Eric Raymond's groff-to-xml converter is open source, it wouldn't
> be too tough to make a version that then converts XML back to groff.
> You might be able t
My current job requires writing long, highly-technical documents in
Word and it is absolutely HORRID! I totally agree with you!
I've seen editors for HTML and XML where you have two windows, one
that contains the raw source and one that contains a reasonably-accurate
rendition of the formatted te
ge-
> From: Meg McRoberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 3:29 PM
> To: Karee, Srinivas; Clarke Echols
> Cc: Groff@gnu.org
> Subject: RE: [Groff] Groff editor.
>
> Thanks for the explanation... You do have a bit of a conundrum here.
> How freque
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Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 3:29 PM
To: Karee, Srinivas; Clarke Echols
Cc: Groff@gnu.org
Subject: RE: [Groff] Groff editor.
Thanks for the explanation... You do have a bit of a conundrum here.
How frequently does this file need to be modified?
I am rapidly getting in over my
convert it to plain-text.
-Original Message-
From: Nick Stoughton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 3:35 PM
To: Karee, Srinivas
Cc: Meg McRoberts; Clarke Echols; Groff@gnu.org
Subject: RE: [Groff] Groff editor.
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 14:11 -0400, Karee, Srinivas wrote
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 14:11 -0400, Karee, Srinivas wrote:
> Basically I cannot lose bold/italic/font and other stuff.
The issue here for me is about the "meta-information". I have a 4,000
page document that describes programming APIs. The fact that a function
name is in italics with () after it is
;
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Meg McRoberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 2:39 PM
> To: Karee, Srinivas; Clarke Echols
> Cc: Groff@gnu.org
> Subject: RE: [Groff] Groff editor.
>
> Why do you need to maintain this as a groff file? P
write the code which uses groff file post editing.
Thanks,
Srini.
-Original Message-
From: Meg McRoberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 2:39 PM
To: Karee, Srinivas; Clarke Echols
Cc: Groff@gnu.org
Subject: RE: [Groff] Groff editor.
Why do you need to maintain this
some tools which I could buy and
> workout this requirement, but looks like there are no tools out there
> which I can use.
>
> Srini.
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Meg McRoberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 2:03 PM
> To: Ka
On 20-Aug-07 17:58:24, Gunnar Ritter wrote:
> (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> The loop constantly checks whether the timestamp on myfile.tr
>> is more recent than that of myfile.watch and, if it is, then
>> groff is run on myfile.tr to generate myfile.ps, and then a
>> 'kill -1' is s
On 20-Aug-07 17:27:41, Clarke Echols wrote:
> Ouch! That's painful! :-)
Perhaps it was only painful, Clarke, because I slung the whole
parcel at you, with long explanations, all at once!
Comparing with your procedure desribed below, what the user
does with my "ge" script is
1. ge filename
2. Ed
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Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 2:03 PM
To: Karee, Srinivas; Clarke Echols
Cc: Groff@gnu.org
Subject: RE: [Groff] Groff editor.
What sort of document is this? Is it mostly text or are there
a lot of tables, graphics, and such?
I can think of a few ways that one might get the content into
What sort of document is this? Is it mostly text or are there
a lot of tables, graphics, and such?
I can think of a few ways that one might get the content into
some sort of WYSIWYG editor, but the fancier the formatting,
the less satisfactory these will be:
- Run the text into formatted ASCII t
(Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The loop constantly checks whether the timestamp on myfile.tr
> is more recent than that of myfile.watch and, if it is, then
> groff is run on myfile.tr to generate myfile.ps, and then a
> 'kill -1' is sent to 'gv' so that it re-reads myfile.ps and
> disp
Ouch! That's painful! :-)
One of my professors from about 33 years ago said, "Engineering
is the *art* of *knowing how* to avoid difficult issues." The
years since have clearly demonstrated to me that those are very
astute words.
I use Windows 98 with Cygwin and the Ghostgum viewer which runs
On 20-Aug-07 15:54:06, Clarke Echols wrote:
> The short answer is "no". The groff source file has all of the
> embedded coding to tell the formatter what to do with the file
> when it reads and interprets it. Microsoft Word, for example,
> gives the user a formatted display of the results from it
Thank you.
-Original Message-
From: Clarke Echols [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 11:54 AM
To: Karee, Srinivas
Cc: Groff@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Groff] Groff editor.
The short answer is "no". The groff source file has all of the
embedded coding t
The short answer is "no". The groff source file has all of the
embedded coding to tell the formatter what to do with the file
when it reads and interprets it. Microsoft Word, for example,
gives the user a formatted display of the results from its own
internal coding. If the user changes somethi
karee wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I wanted a viewer which can show the groff file in formatted output, I
> figured out gxditview can be used to view groff files.
>
> My requirement is quite different here.
>
> I have a groff file, which I should present to the user (user has no
> knowle
Use vi or vim (vi improved). Of course I must admit to some bias
because I "wrote the book on vi" (The Ultimate Guide to the Vi and
Ex Text Editors). :-) Some even think I'm a "vi bigot". But it
works very well.
The biggest problem most people have with vi is understanding
"command" and "input
On Friday 17 August 2007 16:11, Karee, Srinivas wrote:
> Is there a groff editor available to edit the groff file and
> save.
Take your pick. ANY editor will suffice, provided it is capable of
editing and saving plain text files.
Regards,
Keith.
Hi,
Is there a groff editor available to edit the groff file and
save.
Thanks,
Srinivas.
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