From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] line numbers in troff
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 00:38:48 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTimg5EmYSqHYfOqU+zEzyZsoaE1rkg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6fb78b8227dcf9a5236da0c2f8c81607@quintile.net>
Funny you should mention this. I know there is a way (done for patent
applications). I think I can find it in the troff doc. I have to by
tomorrow so I'll report back.
brucee
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> macros are easy enough: start them with .de XX and end them with .., e.g.
> start and end code example which I end up adding to most documents I write:
>
> .de EX
> .nj
> .nf
> .CW
> .SM
> ..
>
> .de EE
> .fi
> .ju
> .LG
> .R
> ..
>
> There are quite a few books, see http://www.troff.org/ , my favorite is
> "Document formatting & typsetting on the UNIX system".
>
> I really don't know how you would add line numbers, if you are lucky there
> may be a well-known macro which is run at the start of every line...
>
> -Steve
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-19 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-19 13:09 hugo rivera
2011-05-19 13:44 ` Steve Simon
2011-05-19 14:38 ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2011-05-19 14:43 ` Sape Mullender
2011-05-19 14:51 ` Bruce Ellis
2011-05-19 17:15 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-05-19 20:48 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-06-08 2:13 ` hugo rivera
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