* [9fans] mv macro set documentation - found!
@ 2007-11-11 2:51 Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-12 1:40 ` [9fans] " Darren Bane
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From: Pietro Gagliardi @ 2007-11-11 2:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Hello. I was noticing the Plan 9 Documentation Project needed info on
the mv macro set. Apparently, according to http://troff.org/
macros.html, a Rick Richardson (whose email address is on that page,
fortunately) gave me a pdf containing the original paper on mv. I
will be putting it in /n/sources/contrib/pietro later - but beware;
the pdf is humongous, and can choke page (or whatever pdf viewer you
use) - I suffered.
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* [9fans] Re: mv macro set documentation - found!
2007-11-11 2:51 [9fans] mv macro set documentation - found! Pietro Gagliardi
@ 2007-11-12 1:40 ` Darren Bane
2007-11-12 1:43 ` Pietro Gagliardi
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From: Darren Bane @ 2007-11-12 1:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
> Hello. I was noticing the Plan 9 Documentation Project needed info on
> the mv macro set. Apparently, according to http://troff.org/
> macros.html, a Rick Richardson (whose email address is on that page,
> fortunately) gave me a pdf containing the original paper on mv. I
> will be putting it in /n/sources/contrib/pietro later - but beware;
> the pdf is humongous, and can choke page (or whatever pdf viewer you
> use) - I suffered.
Slightly off-topic, but future readers on Google Groups may be
interested to know that I prefer the results from Russ Cox's macros
in /n/sources/contrib/rsc/talk. Obviously other people's tastes will
differ.
--
Darren Bane
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* Re: [9fans] Re: mv macro set documentation - found!
2007-11-12 1:40 ` [9fans] " Darren Bane
@ 2007-11-12 1:43 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-16 10:19 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
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From: Pietro Gagliardi @ 2007-11-12 1:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
In my opinion, mv needs a whole lot of improvement - especially for
something dated 1980. Uriel's slides collection is more supreme; I
have yet to look at yours.
On Nov 11, 2007, at 8:40 PM, Darren Bane wrote:
> Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
>> Hello. I was noticing the Plan 9 Documentation Project needed info on
>> the mv macro set. Apparently, according to http://troff.org/
>> macros.html, a Rick Richardson (whose email address is on that page,
>> fortunately) gave me a pdf containing the original paper on mv. I
>> will be putting it in /n/sources/contrib/pietro later - but beware;
>> the pdf is humongous, and can choke page (or whatever pdf viewer you
>> use) - I suffered.
>
> Slightly off-topic, but future readers on Google Groups may be
> interested to know that I prefer the results from Russ Cox's macros
> in /n/sources/contrib/rsc/talk. Obviously other people's tastes will
> differ.
> --
> Darren Bane
>
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* Re: [9fans] Re: mv macro set documentation - found!
2007-11-12 1:43 ` Pietro Gagliardi
@ 2007-11-16 10:19 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-11-16 19:47 ` Pietro Gagliardi
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From: Douglas A. Gwyn @ 2007-11-16 10:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Pietro Gagliardi wrote:
> In my opinion, mv needs a whole lot of improvement ...
mv was useful back when we made "viewfoils" on special thermal
media and mounted them in cardboard frames. But it cannot
compete with PowerPoint..
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* Re: [9fans] Re: mv macro set documentation - found!
2007-11-16 10:19 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
@ 2007-11-16 19:47 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-19 13:45 ` [plan9mod] " Douglas A. Gwyn
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From: Pietro Gagliardi @ 2007-11-16 19:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
What it should do is provide macros like .BO for bold. It does
support pictures with pic, though. I haven't seen an option to remove
the "cut here" parts, though.
On Nov 16, 2007, at 5:19 AM, Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
> Pietro Gagliardi wrote:
>> In my opinion, mv needs a whole lot of improvement ...
>
> mv was useful back when we made "viewfoils" on special thermal
> media and mounted them in cardboard frames. But it cannot
> compete with PowerPoint..
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* [plan9mod] Re: [9fans] Re: mv macro set documentation - found!
2007-11-16 19:47 ` Pietro Gagliardi
@ 2007-11-19 13:45 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
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From: Douglas A. Gwyn @ 2007-11-19 13:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Pietro Gagliardi wrote:
> What it should do is provide macros like .BO for bold.
The usual troff directives should work, e.g. \fB.
> I haven't seen an option to remove the "cut here" parts, though.
For the DWB 2.0 version of the macros ([DWB]/lib/vmca),
the following does that:
.de )t
..
.VS \" or whataver ...
This replaces the macro that implements the cut marks.
I presume that something similar could be used to get
rid of the labels in the margin and + corner markers.
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