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Re: Portability to Mac OS X (was: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS
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Deri |
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Re: Portability to Mac OS X (was: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS) |
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Fri, 29 Oct 2021 20:42:31 +0100 |
On Friday, 29 October 2021 19:38:42 BST T. Kurt Bond wrote:
> [I hit "reply" on my previous attempt at this email, so it went only to
> Ralph. Sorry about that. At least this version has the correct CSTR #.]
> I'm an emacs user, and I use the info version of the groff texinfo manual,
> as well as the manual pages, and usually go to the trouble of getting the
> PDF version of the groff texinfo manual as well. I tend to use the manual
> pages for quick reference and the info version for more detailed reading.
> While I'd miss the info version, I also understand why the groff
> project would rather have its documentation in a groff-native format.
>
> One advantage that the texinfo manual has that *isn't* built into groff -ms
> is the multiple indexes that the texinfo manual produces. I suspect
> someone properly motivated could produce something that would do that,
> based on CSTR 128, "Tools for Printing Indexes", and pdfmark, at least for
> PDF output. I have no idea what would be necessary for HTML output.
The pdf I sent to the list yesterday:-
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2021-10/msg00094.html
Is produced entirely by groff and has a full clickable index.
Cheers
Deri
- Re: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS, (continued)
- Re: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri, 2021/10/26
- Portability to Mac OS X (was: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS), G. Branden Robinson, 2021/10/27
- Re: Portability to Mac OS X, Werner LEMBERG, 2021/10/27
- Re: Portability to Mac OS X (was: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS), John Gardner, 2021/10/28
- Re: Portability to Mac OS X, Ingo Schwarze, 2021/10/28
- Re: Portability to Mac OS X, Deri, 2021/10/28
- Re: Portability to Mac OS X (was: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS), John Gardner, 2021/10/28
- Re: Portability to Mac OS X (was: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS), Larry McVoy, 2021/10/28
- Re: Portability to Mac OS X (was: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS), Ralph Corderoy, 2021/10/29
- Re: Portability to Mac OS X (was: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS), T. Kurt Bond, 2021/10/29
- Re: Portability to Mac OS X (was: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS),
Deri <=
- Re: Portability to Mac OS X (was: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS), T. Kurt Bond, 2021/10/29
- Re: Portability to Mac OS X (was: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS), Deri, 2021/10/29
- Re: Portability to Mac OS X (was: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS), Ralph Corderoy, 2021/10/29
Re: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS, G. Branden Robinson, 2021/10/27