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[Groff] Re: How to contribute tbl enhancement?
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Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
[Groff] Re: How to contribute tbl enhancement? |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:03:31 +0200 (CEST) |
> I have modified version 1.19 of groff tbl to implement the expanded
> column feature that was present in the last AT&T version of tbl.
Sounds interesting!
> 1. It seems as if groff may not be hosted by FFII, anymore. I wanted
> to see if I was still subscribed to any of the mailing lists, but
> there does not seem to be a groff list. Furthermore, it looks
> like the mail archives were cut off in early September, since
> there is only a single message.
groff has moved to gnu.org. See below for the announcement sent to
the groff mailing list.
> 2. I have never used CVS. What do I have to do to access the code?
See below also -- just follow the links.
> 3. I would appreciate someone taking a look at my changes, since I
> am a novice at the internals of groff tbl. I can send along a
> package of the changes for review if I knew where to send them.
Send your changes to the groff mailing list (address@hidden -- you must
be subscribed)
> 4. I understand that as of 19.1 that the "x" modifier may have been
> consumed by the user-defined macro feature. If so, I would
> appreciate a suggestion as to which letter would be preferred.
It's a pity that we have a clash here. Theoretically, it would be
still possible to have `x' without an argument to work similar to AT&T
tbl, and `x' with argument is GNU's macro extension. I wonder whether
this is a good idea or whether this leads to confusion...
Before I can include your code in groff I need a copyright disclaimer
in case your change is longer than about 20 lines of code.
Werner
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As mentioned earlier, the stuff formerly available from
ftp://ftp.ffii.org/pub/groff can now be temporarily found here:
http://groff.ffii.org/groff
I will move it in the near future to ftp.gnu.org.
The CVS can be accessed using the following cvsroot:
:ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/groff
You have to use ssh, for example:
export CVS_RSH=ssh
cvs -z3 -d:ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/groff co groff
to check out the groff repository. Automatical creation of snapshots
and diffs will be set up shortly, I hope; similarly, I will update the
html pages in the near future [both items haven't happened yet].
Please report problems to me and to address@hidden
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