| 27 Jan 2023 |
 sunzu | maybe with .ALD instead | 09:09:57 |
 Mane | I could just make up my own title format by indenting it but I'd rather not if there's a way to do it before .START. | 09:10:16 |
| sunzu | you could wrie it as a macro perhaps and invoke it with a trap maybe but idk | 09:11:34 |
| Mane | It doesn't work, I assume .ALD is something that needs to go after .START to function. | 09:11:51 |
| sunzu | ahh | 09:12:04 |
| Mane | I'll look into it, thanks for the help. | 09:12:19 |
| sunzu | maybe have a look in om.tmac | 09:12:25 |
| sunzu | how it's invoked there | 09:12:43 |
| Mane | 
Download image.png | 09:13:32 |
| Mane | You mean take this and invoke basic groff to do the same? | 09:13:53 |
| sunzu | i meant the title page | 09:14:02 |
| sunzu | if there is sth to get down without rewriting it | 09:14:29 |
| Mane | 
Download image.png | 09:14:40 |
| Mane | Redacted or Malformed Event | 09:14:52 |
| Mane | I'll take a look through the groff documentation and figure out how this works. | 09:15:21 |
| sunzu | let me know if you found a solution | 09:16:09 |
| Mane | Will do. | 09:16:16 |
| Mane | After pouring over the documentation and attempting .sp, \v, \SP and others I haven't been able to find the solution.
So I just set the .TITLE to and empty string and made my own title page using regular document processing.
Would've been nice to have a way to centre it automatically but alas. | 10:57:57 |
| Mane | .START
.L_MARGIN <n1>i
.sp 3i
.PT_SIZE 16
\*[BD]Something\*[PREV]
.PT_SIZE
.BR
.IL <n2>i
\*[IT]
by
.IL <n3>i
Else
\*[PREV]
.IQ
.L_MARGIN 1i
| 10:59:13 |
| Mane | Just replace the <ni> numbers with whatever works for the text you've written. | 10:59:35 |
| Mane | * .START
.L_MARGIN <n1>i
.sp 3i
.PT_SIZE 16
\*[BD]Something\*[PREV]
.PT_SIZE
.BR
.IL <n2>i
\*[IT]
by
.IL <n3>i
Else
\*[PREV]
.IQ
.L_MARGIN 1i
.NEWPAGE
| 10:59:57 |
| Mane | I now realise I could have just indented the title text as well, instead of playing with the margins. | 11:00:29 |
| Mane | When I learn to play with registers I'll probably write a small macro to automatically make centre titles. | 11:02:17 |
| sunzu | doesn't .CENTER work? | 12:42:24 |
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| Mane | Man I'm really disappointed in the customizability of groff as a PDF maker. If I want to do basically anything that isn't pretty black text on a white background I have to jump through quite a few hoops, if it's even possible in the first place. | 12:32:50 |
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