On Tue, 23 May 2023, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
The new wording in groff(7) seems to explain everything--a great
improvement. But knowing how it works is not the same as knowing how
to use it.
I agree.
In the absence of any useful examples, I think a hazard warning in the
user guide is preferabl
Hi Tadziu,
At 2023-05-23T13:20:43+0200, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> Eqn makes troff assemble a string named "10", and at the end
> of its output this string is interpolated:
>
> \*(10
Thanks for the reminder of another task for my GNU eqn(1) man page
rewrite queue:
*roff name space impact
When
Hi Doug,
At 2023-05-23T11:07:46-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> The new wording in groff(7) seems to explain everything--a great
> improvement. But knowing how it works is not the same as knowing how
> to use it.
True! groff(7) isn't, and isn't intended to be, good at that.
> In the absence of a
The new wording in groff(7) seems to explain everything--a great
improvement. But knowing how it works is not the same as knowing how
to use it.
In the absence of any useful examples, I think a hazard warning in the
user guide is preferable to an explanatory essay.
Maybe tabs in eqn should be off
> The tab is passed to groff as \t\, man 7 groff says \t is
> "uninterpreted", yet the tab skips to a tab stop set by .ta.
> This leaves me totally confused, because groff apparently
> ignores \t when it doesn't come from eqn. If, as i believe,
> eqn doesn't know about .ta and groff doesn't know
Hi Doug,
At 2023-05-22T20:04:53-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> > Basically, [if] a tab occurs within braces, it will be rejected.
This statement of mine was, alas, too general. A tab within braces will
be rejected (diagnosed and ignored) if the braces are necessary to
disambiguate the input.
>
Sadly Doug, I am nowhere near as economical with words as you!
On Mon, 22 May 2023, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
Basically, [if] a tab occurs within braces, it will be rejected.
Running eqn standalone, I got identical outputs from these two inputs
.EQ
ab
.EN
.EQ
{ab}
.EN
The tab is passed to g
> Basically, [if] a tab occurs within braces, it will be rejected.
Running eqn standalone, I got identical outputs from these
two inputs
.EQ
ab
.EN
.EQ
{ab}
.EN
The tab is passed to groff as \t\,
man 7 groff says \t is "uninterpreted", yet the tab
skips to a tab stop set by .ta. This leaves me
[Sorry--my previous email was a botch.]
At 2023-05-22T15:46:15+1000, Damian McGuckin wrote:
> I am resurrecting my re-write of the EQN User Guide which was itself
> an elaboration of Ted Harding's User Guide. I have used many examples
> from BrianK's and LorindaC's original 2nd Edition EQN documen
I am resurrecting my re-write of the EQN User Guide which was itself an
elaboration of Ted Harding's User Guide. I have used many examples from
BrianK's and LorindaC's original 2nd Edition EQN document because I wanted
backwards continuity in the examples. Ted also addresses MM which I have
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