Posts by hexdsl

Originally posted on reddit – Links. For print. I was asked about embedding link into groff documents a few weeks ago, I wrote this outlining how that is accomplished and while its still the ideal way to deal with clickable links there is a…

Originally posted on Reddit Clickable web Links in your final PDF! Today I was asked how you create clickable links in a PDF document, the truth is I had NO IDEA! I use groff for long form documents and it…

Originally posted in Reddit – Looking for Information about GROFF an man page doesn’t go far enough? (info groff) Its a struggle to find good information about GROFF, guides/examples and help files are few and far between but fear not…

Originally posted in Reddit – Looking for Information about GROFF an man page doesn’t go far enough? (info groff) Its a struggle to find good information about GROFF, guides/examples and help files are few and far between but fear not…

Originally posted in Reddit – Basic TABLE (including examples) Tables are a little confusing at first (mostly due to example files being terrible) The below is an easy to understand example of a simple table. this one uses ‘;’ as…

Originally posted on reddit – A Basic guide to formatting (babies first groff) Groff Guide The following is a very slimmed down list of basic groff commands using the MS macro set and Table pre-processor Examples of usage follow. COMMAND…

As spoiler free as I am able to be. I have not before ready any Rysa Walker. I didn’t even know who she was until I stumbled over this book when searching good-reads for recommendations. Her writing style is wonderfully…

I recently had the urge to play some old Megadrive (Genesis) games. I dusted off my old Retoflag GPI Gameboy style handheld and, well, just sort of blinked at it for a moment. It was big and chunky, like a…

I love this novel, I think its one of Robert A Heinlein’s finest offerings. I have wrote about it in great depth in the past, but were only here to talk about the first line today. “Once upon a time…

Storm Front (Dresden Files 1) by Jim Butcher. In my discord group there is a room (are they called rooms?) called #book_club where us bookish folks exchange recommendations and thoughts on, you guessed it… Books! It was there that someone…