On Sunday 13 August 2006 7:02 pm, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote:
>> ... This too is now fixed in CVS.
>
> First of all sorry for not responding earlier.
> I was on a vacation and couldn't test the new version of pdfroff
> script.
No problem. Hope you enjoyed your holiday.
> I checked it out today with
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 12:14:08AM +0100, Keith Marshall wrote:
> > The problem with this sed script was that it would delete EVERYTHING
> > from the `%%Page: n n' marker record for a new page, down to the first
> > line of PostScript code following the associated `%%EndPageSetup'
> > marker, if it
On 01-Aug-06 Keith MARSHALL wrote:
> Ted Harding wrote:
>> I recommend as a definitive example the instructions contained in
>> British Standard 6008 (BS 6008:1980, ISO 3103:1980): "Method for
>> Preparation of a liquor of tea ... ", of which a PDF copy can be
>> found at
>>
>> http://ftp.ee.surr
Hi Keith,
> I don't have my photo anywhere on the web, that I know of; maybe we
> could consider a "rogue's gallery" of project contributors on the
> groff.ffii.org site?
I'm happy to add to Werner's picture at http://troff.org/whoswho.html
I've not managed to get a picture of Ted so far.
Chee
Ted Harding wrote:
> A delightful piece of research! (Is that your photo in Fig. 9,
> Keith?)
No, it isn't. I don't have my photo anywhere on the web, that I
know of; maybe we could consider a "rogue's gallery" of project
contributors on the groff.ffii.org site?
The document was first circulate
On 31-Jul-06 Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> On 31-Jul-06 Keith MARSHALL wrote:
>> Since it's just a bit of light hearted fun, I probably won't. I
>> can't access that site from here -- blocked by firewall -- but I'll
>> have a look later.
>
> Ok, it's now here:
>
> http://groff.ffii.org/groff/temp/te
>> Since it's just a bit of light hearted fun, I probably won't. I
>> can't access that site from here -- blocked by firewall -- but I'll
>> have a look later.
>
> Ok, it's now here:
>
> http://groff.ffii.org/groff/temp/teapot.ms.tar.gz
Thanks.
I realised, on rereading that earlier post, that `
> Since it's just a bit of light hearted fun, I probably won't. I
> can't access that site from here -- blocked by firewall -- but I'll
> have a look later.
Ok, it's now here:
http://groff.ffii.org/groff/temp/teapot.ms.tar.gz
Werner
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Gro
>>> Can you post an URL?
>>
>> Not easily, unless someone can suggest a public web space I could
>> upload it to FOC. I don't have it here, but IIRC, the tarball is
>> about 0.5Mb.
>
> rapidshare.de? I hope you don't mind that your bundle is located
> amidst of, hmm, slightly different stuff :-)
> > Can you post an URL?
>
> Not easily, unless someone can suggest a public web space I could
> upload it to FOC. I don't have it here, but IIRC, the tarball is
> about 0.5Mb.
rapidshare.de? I hope you don't mind that your bundle is located
amidst of, hmm, slightly different stuff :-)
W
Werner Lemberg wrote, quoting me:
>> I did attach it to a follow up post, forgetting that it would be
>> bigger than the normal attachment size limit. Maybe Werner will
>> allow it through anyway; maybe he won't.
>
> Well, `bigger' is an understatement :-) It's really too large, so
> I've rejecte
> I did attach it to a follow up post, forgetting that it would be
> bigger than the normal attachment size limit. Maybe Werner will
> allow it through anyway; maybe he won't.
Well, `bigger' is an understatement :-) It's really too large, so
I've rejected it. Can you post an URL?
Werner
> For anyone who fancies an amusing read, the `teapot' test source
> is attached; you need the latest CVS pdfroff to format it:
>
> pdfroff --no-toc -ms teapot.ms > teapot.pdf
Well, I'd intended to attach it, but was too quick to hit `send'.
I did attach it to a follow up post, forgetting that
On Sunday 30 July 2006 4:03 pm, Keith Marshall wrote:
> > I'd fix that sed script myself if I had a faintest idea how to
> > reliably distinguish a valid embedded EPS from a blank page.
>
> The problem with this sed script was that it would delete EVERYTHING
> from the `%%Page: n n' marker record f
On Saturday 17 June 2006 3:07 am, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote:
> One issue I had is that your sed script erased completely valid EPS
> files (created by ImageMagick convert program from JPG and PNG)
> embedded in my presentations. Thus I decided to make it an empty
> script for --emit-ps option. If yo
> > I also see in your latest patch the part
> >
> > exec > $PDF_OUTPUT
> >
> > Its obvious intention is to open the output file and redirect the later
> > '-' (stdout) to it. Does this work with every Bourne type shell?
It should work in every Korn shell derivative, including ksh, pdksh
On Sunday 02 July 2006 8:56 pm, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote:
[re: suppression of blank page elimination in pdfroff output]
> > `--no-kill-null-pages' option, which will allow this filter to be
> > explicitly disabled; (I've already begun to prepare this, and will
> > commit both patches together).
>
> T
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 03:03:25PM +0100, Keith Marshall wrote:
> Thanks for suggesting this potential enhancement. I think, however, that
> I prefer `--emit-ps', or `--emit-postscript', (one or the other, but not
> both, otherwise abbreviation becomes unwieldy), to your choice of
> `--leave-po
Hi Zvezdan,
On Friday 16 June 2006 8:47 am, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote:
> The patch against 1.19.2 that creates pdfroff2 is attached below.
Thanks for suggesting this potential enhancement. I think, however, that
I prefer `--emit-ps', or `--emit-postscript', (one or the other, but not
both, otherw
I use pdfroff a lot.
I also use gpresent a lot.
I process most of my writing using a set of makefiles to automate a task.
The problem is that gpresent _needs_ PostScript input, while pdfroff
removes PostScript and leaves PDF only.
That doesn't help, because it's an exception to the rules in my
ma
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