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Re: [Groff] groff_ms.man
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [Groff] groff_ms.man |
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Tue, 22 Jan 2002 15:24:38 +0100 (CET) |
> And as groff ms is based on BSD 4.3 ms minus UCB's thesis mode, and
> BSD ms is AT&T ms enhanced and without the office and budget code
> beaurocratic stuff used at Bell Labs...
In case groff ms lacks some features it might be even worth to
implement them...
> > > And... What about a list of the out-of-the-box accents and
> > > symbols and how to type them? Something like a groff_symbols.7
> > > man page. (I might be willing to write it myself, notice the use
> > > of non-commital future tense).
You mean groff_char(7)?
> > That should also be added to groff.texinfo -- I think there's a
> > placeholder section for it, but it hasn't been written yet.
Yes. groff_char(7) should be translated to texinfo.
> Hmm... I can look into it. I haven't written a *roff macro in a decade sooo,
> it will take a while to get up to speed. texinfo hasn't been my thing either
> but there is always a first time for everything. (All my keyboards have
> always had the @ key in a place that gives me hand cramps, even those Wyse
> 80's when we finally stopped punching cards... ;)
sed /s/<your favourite escape>/@/ :-)
> > For that matter, all *roffs are missing a definition for the
> > ellipses (...) -- I sent a further groff_ms.man patch to Werner
> > that contains a definition:
> >
> > .ie |\*(.T|ps| .char \(el \fS\N'188'
> > .el .char \(el .\|.\|.\&
>
> Hmm... I just saw and the native ellipsis is not there in the PS
> metrics files. I suppose that's "by design".
It's a rather useless glyph IMHO.
> > Only the PostScript S (Symbol) fonts have it defined. Seeing how
> > it's used in the Synopsis of most manpages, it really ought to be
> > more readily available.
>
> I think they should come from the actual text font,
Exactly.
> but considering the situation, that's better than nothing.
The following should do it perfectly:
.char \[el] .\|.\|.\&
No need to access glyph 188 of the special font.
If you all agree, I'll add it to troff.rc -- what about using the
entity name `ell' which is probably more mnemonic?
Werner
- [Groff] groff_ms.man, Werner LEMBERG, 2002/01/17
- Re: [Groff] groff_ms.man, P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia, 2002/01/19
- Re: [Groff] groff_ms.man, Larry Kollar, 2002/01/19
- Re: [Groff] groff_ms.man, P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia, 2002/01/19
- Re: [Groff] groff_ms.man,
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- Re: [Groff] groff_ms.man, ralph, 2002/01/22
- Re: [Groff] groff_ms.man, Werner LEMBERG, 2002/01/23
- Re: [Groff] groff_ms.man, Ralph Corderoy, 2002/01/23
- Re: [Groff] groff_ms.man, Werner LEMBERG, 2002/01/24
- Re: [Groff] groff_ms.man, Stewart C. Russell, 2002/01/24
- Re: [Groff] groff_ms.man, Werner LEMBERG, 2002/01/24
- Re: [Groff] groff_ms.man, Stewart C. Russell, 2002/01/24
- Re: [Groff] groff_ms.man (info flamebait), Rick Richardson, 2002/01/24
- Re: [Groff] groff_ms.man (info flamebait), Ralph Corderoy, 2002/01/24
- Re: [Groff] groff_ms.man, Ted Harding, 2002/01/24