[9fans] mv macro set documentation - found!

[9fans] mv macro set documentation - found!

[Pietro Gagliardi]

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.

[9fans] Re: mv macro set documentation - found!

[Darren Bane]

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

Re: [9fans] Re: mv macro set documentation - found!

[Pietro Gagliardi]

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
>

Re: [9fans] Re: mv macro set documentation - found!

[Douglas A. Gwyn]

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..

Re: [9fans] Re: mv macro set documentation - found!

[Pietro Gagliardi]

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..

[plan9mod] Re: [9fans] Re: mv macro set documentation - found!

[Douglas A. Gwyn]

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.