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Re: About groff and dformat
From: |
Thomas Dupond |
Subject: |
Re: About groff and dformat |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Aug 2022 21:01:41 +0200 |
Riza Dindir <riza.dindir@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
Hi!
> I am trying to get dformat to work. What I did was this.
>
> I first tried to include an example dformat script into my document. I
> got the first example from the troff.org site
> (https://troff.org/prog.html). The first example for the dformat
> processor. That example has been using inline equations/math
> expressions.
>
> Then I went and got the dformat awk script. That script I got from
> (https://github.com/arnoldrobbins/dformat) which might not be the
> original script.
I know the following github repo is a transcript of the dformat by
Jon L. Bentley:
https://github.com/sathlan/dformat
I had no problem generating your document with it. :)
> Anyways I have this simple document.
>
> .TL
> Some format
> .NH
> deneme
> .EQ
> delim @@
> .EN
> .LP
> .begin dformat
> style bitwid 0.08
> style charwid 0
> style recspread 0.3
> noname
> --16 Frame
> --16 Frame
> A1: --16 Frame
> --16 Frame
> --8-dashed ...
> noname
> A2: 8--8 Flags
> 8--8 Status
> --8 @roman Chunk sub 1@
> B1: --8 @roman Chunk sub 2@
> --8-dashed ...
> --8 @roman Chunk sub m@
> 16--16 CRC
> A3: 8--8 Flags
> noname
> B2: 8--8 @roman Data sub 1@
> 8--8 @roman Data sub 2@
> 8--8 @roman Data sub 3@
> 8--8 @roman Data sub 4@
> --8-dashed ...
> 8--8 @roman Data sub n-1@
> 8--8 @roman Data sub n@
> 6--6 Length
> B3: 10--10 Channel #
> pic line dotted from A1.sw to A2.nw
> pic line dotted from A1.se to A3.ne
> pic line dotted from B1.sw to B2.nw
> pic line dotted from B1.se to B3.ne
> .end
>
> And am running the command line as
>
> !sh dformat.sh format-test.ms | eqn | pic | groff -ms > main.ps
>
> The command says this
>
> pic:<standard input>:98: syntax error before '\'
> pic:<standard input>:98: giving up on this picture
>
> Does anybody use dformat? Which dformat script are you using?
>
> Regards,
> Riza
>
>
--
Regards,
Thomas
- About groff and dformat, Riza Dindir, 2022/08/16
- Re: About groff and dformat,
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- Re: About groff and dformat, Riza Dindir, 2022/08/16
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- Re: About groff and dformat, Thomas Dupond, 2022/08/17
- Re: About groff and dformat, Riza Dindir, 2022/08/17
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