Re: [Groff] broken documentation for ideal

2013-02-06 Thread Daniel Lyons
On Feb 6, 2013, at 7:45 PM, "James K. Lowden" wrote: > On Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:23:15 + > Ralph Corderoy wrote: > >>> Is there an implementation of ideal to go with the manual? >> >> I heard second-hand that Christopher Van Wyk states Alcatel-Lucent own >> the copyright > > Confirmed. He

Re: [Groff] broken documentation for ideal

2013-02-06 Thread James K. Lowden
On Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:23:15 + Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > Is there an implementation of ideal to go with the manual? > > I heard second-hand that Christopher Van Wyk states Alcatel-Lucent own > the copyright Confirmed. He told me so himself. Ideal would not be trivial to reimplement, eit

Re: [Groff] broken documentation for ideal

2013-02-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Daniel, > > www.usm.lmu.de/~hoffmann/roff/103.pdf > > Is there an implementation of ideal to go with the manual? I heard second-hand that Christopher Van Wyk states Alcatel-Lucent own the copyright and they, not him, provided the source code to someone in 2010-11. Perhaps some research wil

Re: [Groff] broken documentation for ideal

2013-02-06 Thread Daniel Lyons
On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 03:30:25PM +0100, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote: > > > 103.ps.gz is broken, beginning at page 5. Does anyone have > > another format or knows about that? > > I hacked the PS file to create a PDF that appears to be okay: > > www.usm.lmu.de/~hoffmann/roff/103.pdf Is there an im

Re: [Groff] broken documentation for ideal

2013-02-05 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> 103.ps.gz is broken, beginning at page 5. Does anyone have > another format or knows about that? I hacked the PS file to create a PDF that appears to be okay: www.usm.lmu.de/~hoffmann/roff/103.pdf

Re: [Groff] broken documentation for ideal

2013-02-05 Thread Denis M. Wilson
It looks fine to me (using gv as a viewer), although rough round the edges, as I use the URW not Adobe fonts. The document structure is incomplete, so gv does not display page numbers. Denis On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 11:55:18 +0100 (CET) "Bernd Warken" wrote: > From troff.org: > > IDEAL User's Manual

Re: [Groff] broken documentation for ideal

2013-02-05 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/103.ps.gz >> >> 103.ps.gz is broken, beginning at page 5. Does anyone have another >> format or knows about that? >> >> Bernd Warken >> >> > I just opened the above link and for me it's *not* broken (25 pages). Bernd, try to call ghostscript's ps2pdf to get a

Re: [Groff] broken documentation for ideal

2013-02-05 Thread Joachim Walsdorff
Am 05.02.2013 11:55, schrieb Bernd Warken: From troff.org: IDEAL User's Manual. CSTR #103, C. J. Van Wyk, Bell Labs, December 1981. http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/103.ps.gz 103.ps.gz is broken, beginning at page 5. Does anyone have another format or knows about that? Bernd Warken I ju

[Groff] broken documentation for ideal

2013-02-05 Thread Bernd Warken
>From troff.org: IDEAL User's Manual. CSTR #103, C. J. Van Wyk, Bell Labs, December 1981. http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/103.ps.gz 103.ps.gz is broken, beginning at page 5. Does anyone have another format or knows about that? Bernd Warken