"groff/troff for Minimalist Document Complication". I suspect I'll need to redefine the -ms macro that controls the trap for footnotes.? But I haven't figured out which macro that is just yet.
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Are you very well-versed with -ms? In particular, right now I'm trying to figure out how to add one blank line of space in footnotes AFTER the horizontal line, but BEFORE the first footnote begins. But there's a couple of very small details that I'm finding difficult to crack. I've already got a reasonable imitation of the original document, which is fun and a bit rewarding. I'm using the -ms macro set, mostly because that's what Luke Smith demos in his videos so that's what I got started with. I formatted the original in MS Word using a template my school provided, so I have something to visually compare against.
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To practice, I'm trying to re-typeset a paper I wrote in school that follows the Chicago Manual of Style. I've also learned from this article on Linux journal and Luke Smith's YouTube playlist on groff. Mostly, I've been referring to this page on gnu.org. I've found a couple of resources that have been helpful. I didn't know about '\&' as a way to "short circuit" groff from interpreting something as a macro that should be literal (such as a line-initial period). This is helpful! Thank you for taking the time to write it up. Registers, and other exciting topics such as refer(1), but this should give you Obviously, there is much I have not covered in this comment, such as macros,
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Just redirect the output to a file to get a PDF or a PS document. System was heavily based on the UNIX philosophy, which means the output you getįrom running the groff program prints the output to stdout. Now, to print anything you should know the design of the original troff To start a picture, `.PS` and `.PE` will do so, and again, a small language as input in that block. (it is capable of more, like strokes, macros, color, and I believe rotation). Groff also does pictures, so you can for example create a box with some text in it List for groff, which is also pretty good for newbie questions, it is not really I think there is some kind of EQN document rescued from Bell Labs that tells
Macros are not delimited by `` to delimit expressions.
Most "macros" as in TeX, are invoked by having the first character of a lineīe a `.` and then as in TeX, refer to a name. Well, I've been using groff on and off for a few years, I can give it a shot. NB: I'm new to HN, so please excuse any formatting errors in this comment.
On a side note: I'd recommend luatex over xetex. I wrote a python wrapper around the tex live installer to make this easy for CI jobs, see e.g. It's a bit annoying to get the list of packages needed though, since there is not really any working dependency management. Only installing the packages you really need from a minimal installation gives you a few hundred megabytes at most for even complex documents. Not installing the source files and documentation PDFs will alone reduce the size by roughly half. However, you don't need 99 % of this for any given document. This is huge (>7GB, not just the 5 GB claimed here).
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The Problem is that TeXLive still defaults to doing a full install.Ī full install means installing ~4000 packages, including their source files (tens of thousands of tex files) and built documentation (thousands of PDF files) and hundreds of free fonts (otfs, ttfs, texs own format).