On Wed, Sep 12, 2012, Ted Harding wrote:
> On 12-Sep-2012 10:16:27 Mike Bianchi wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 09:37:49AM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> >> > In case someone is preparing a patch to standardize the documentation
> >> > to US English, I can easily apply it.
> >>
> >> Please don'
On 12-Sep-2012 10:16:27 Mike Bianchi wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 09:37:49AM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>> > In case someone is preparing a patch to standardize the documentation
>> > to US English, I can easily apply it.
>>
>> Please don't. In these days of international collaboration I th
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 09:37:49AM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > In case someone is preparing a patch to standardize the documentation
> > to US English, I can easily apply it.
>
> Please don't. In these days of international collaboration I think it's
> fine for inconsistencies in correct Eng
Hi Werner,
> In case someone is preparing a patch to standardize the documentation
> to US English, I can easily apply it.
Please don't. In these days of international collaboration I think it's
fine for inconsistencies in correct English spelling based on the
contributors' backgrounds. If that
> Somebody evidently slipped that "u" into neighbor while the
> Americans were otherwise occupied.
I just did
grep -i '[^hfy ]our[^a-zA-Z_-]' `find -type f` \
| grep -v behaviour \
| grep -v colour
over the CVS archive and see that the remaining 78 entries are mostly
contained in contribu
> ... I have just found a printout of the groff
> 'tbl' man page in an old ring-binder. The footer states:
>
> Groff Version 1.10 26 June 1995
>
> This is the old very terse (à la James Clarke) man-page, in which
> "Only the differences between GNU tbl and Unix tbl are described
> here". The
Hi Ted,
> I'm not able at the moment to access an original Unix man-page
> for tbl, so cannot compare groff's current one with the Unix
> original.
The 7th Ed. tbl(1) mainly punts to Lesk's tbl paper in the reference
manual.
wget -qO- http://cm.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/vol1/man1.bun |
sed
On 11-Sep-2012 17:49:49 Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>> That may have been James Clarke, who was *creating* groff in the
>> late 1980s in the UK. He would not have been happy with a variant
>> spelling such as "neighbor". He would not have 'slipped that "u"
>> into neghbour' -- he would have been setting
> My last email in that thread summed up my understanding, here's a
> patch based on that.
Thanks, applied, with minor additions.
Werner
> That may have been James Clarke, who was *creating* groff in the
> late 1980s in the UK. He would not have been happy with a variant
> spelling such as "neighbor". He would not have 'slipped that "u"
> into neghbour' -- he would have been setting it up himself!
>
> However, my then (1991) instal
On 11-Sep-2012 16:22:38 James K. Lowden wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:06:29 +0200
> Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
>
>> \^;\^
>
> Weaving two threads, my copy of the tbl man page says,
>
> If a data line consists of only `_' or `=', a single or
> double line, respectively, is drawn
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:06:29 +0200
Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> \^;\^
Weaving two threads, my copy of the tbl man page says,
If a data line consists of only `_' or `=', a single or
double line, respectively, is drawn across the table at that
point; if a single item in
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:19:57AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> > I think I learnt this from the list when I asked a few months ago.
> > See lines marked `->' and tbl(1). [...]
> >
> > -> l rd.
> > ...
> > -> \^;\^
>
> Very nice :-) This tbl trick apparently escaped my radar, and I ca
> I had overlooked/forgotten the 'd' specifier.
It's a GNU tbl extension (the original tbl had only "t" for
top-aligning, the default being vertically centered).
> I'll have to read the man page more carefully, but I must
> admit it's not very easy to understand fully.
Since "d" is only valid
Hi Werner,
> > I think I learnt this from the list when I asked a few months ago.
> > See lines marked `->' and tbl(1). [...]
> >
> > -> l rd.
> > ...
> > -> \^;\^
>
> Very nice :-) This tbl trick apparently escaped my radar, and I can't
> remember having seen it on the list.
http://lists
11/9 -12, you wrote:
> Hi Salve,
>
> > I try to learn groff. I want to have 'Text' printed at the bottom of
> > its cell. But can't find out how.
> >
> > .TS
> > tab(;) allbox;
> > l r.
> > T{
> > Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon.
> > At the age of 18, he married Anne H
On 11-Sep-2012 09:08:08 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Salve,
>
>> I try to learn groff. I want to have 'Text' printed at the bottom of
>> its cell. But can't find out how.
>>
>> .TS
>> tab(;) allbox;
>> l r.
>> T{
>> Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon.
>> At the age of 18, h
> I think I learnt this from the list when I asked a few months ago.
> See lines marked `->' and tbl(1). [...]
>
> -> l rd.
> ...
> -> \^;\^
Very nice :-) This tbl trick apparently escaped my radar, and I can't
remember having seen it on the list.
Could you prepare a small patch to tbl.m
Hi Salve,
> I try to learn groff. I want to have 'Text' printed at the bottom of
> its cell. But can't find out how.
>
> .TS
> tab(;) allbox;
> l r.
> T{
> Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon.
> At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway,
> with whom he had three children
10/9 -12, you wrote:
> On 10-Sep-2012 18:45:11 Salve Håkedal wrote:
> > I try to learn groff. I want to have 'Text' printed at the bottom
> > of its cell. But can't find out how.
> >
> > .TS
> > tab(;) allbox;
> > l r.
> > T{
> > Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon.
> > At
On 10-Sep-2012 18:45:11 Salve Håkedal wrote:
> I try to learn groff. I want to have 'Text' printed at the bottom
> of its cell. But can't find out how.
>
> .TS
> tab(;) allbox;
> l r.
> T{
> Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon.
> At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway,
I try to learn groff. I want to have 'Text' printed at the bottom of
its cell. But can't find out how.
.TS
tab(;) allbox;
l r.
T{
Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon.
At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway,
with whom he had three children
T};Text
.TE
--
Salve
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