roff preview?

[bronson]

The screenshot in the README makes me think you have a preview mode that I can see in Atom? I'm looking for something like the continually-updated Markdown Preview.

Looking at the code, though... I guess this plugin contains syntax files and snippets, and I still need to escape to the terminal to preview?

[Alhadis]

I suppose I could always make one. Wouldn't be terribly hard, I think. Just a case of piping Groff's output to Atom like a postprocessor. :)

[Alhadis]

I'll see what I can do, mate.

[Alhadis]

Hey @bronson, just letting you know I've not forgotten about this. :) Trying to get work finished on the file-icons package, then I'll make a bee-line for this. I've already made a start.

I have the worst track record of starting projects and putting them down to start another...

[bronson]

No worries, I really like file-icons too. Gotta admit, given the popularity difference between roff and icons, your time might be better spent over there. :)

[Alhadis]

Alright, all done! Lot of work, as you can see. Now then... let's get some roff happenin'. :)

EDIT: Okay, erm, maybe later. I spoke too soon... bloody Nuclide. :(

[arbourd]

Hey @Alhadis, would this be part of the package or are you working on a separate package? Are you accepting pull requests?

[Alhadis]

I'm making every effort to get around to it, but so far I've had to fight through urgent crap with file-icons. All concerning things outside my control:

1. Updated file-icons to not break from jQuery removal in core packages
2. Separated filesystem API so weird compatibility bugs can be investigated easier
3. Now republishing a module because I found I had to deal with this shit at the last minute (literally):

4. Meanwhile, the release notes of file-icons v2.1.0 are chillin' there rather awkwardly waiting to be visible to the Atom community. Stuff like this happening all the time, for weeks. I'm doing all I can to get around to this, it's my incentive for tolerance.

No pull-requests, sorry. I'm way too much of a control freak; and this is actually really complicated, but it's just a matter of focus. It'll be in this package, don't worry.

[arbourd]

Thanks for the immediate response!

No worries. I appreciate the effort you make towards the Atom community. G'luck with file-icons. :)

[Alhadis]

On the plus side, guess what? The roff-preview will be a full-blown real-time renderer for groff, capable of displaying actual typeset output.

It's not like it's avoidable. Due to the way troff defines output devices, it had to be done. Figure I may as well make this damn worth the effort.

[Alhadis]

@arbourd You can track progress on the renderer branch. =) As you can see, it's... uh, quite involved.

Bonus: Will be able to convert tokenised output as SVG and Markdown. So far, so good. Shit is rock-solid.

[Alhadis]

Halfway there. =)

EDIT: More than halfway: