This is great! Excuse my ignorance, but how exactly is one made a developer of a specific project? I'm just curious how these things work and what this means -- apropos of nothing
Talk with Werner, and submit your request via Savannah. Myself, I've been writing documents in groff for more than 20 years, but most of that was in environments where we had professional tool people who created and maintained the macro pages. I think most of Yup...that sounds familiar. to fix them). It would be nice to provide some sample scripts, or perhaps I think this is an excellent idea. Another example: I can't remember how to control the font and numbering of headers and such. I remember that there is a line or two that specifies the point size, bold/italic/roman font, and the spacing before and after the headers but I can't remember how to do it. Providing a few sample lines that produce some common output types would be quite useful, again to reduce the learning curve. This reminds me of learning TeX via Donald Knuth's book. I'd also love to have a discussion with you about the relative merits of groff versus XML/docbook. I confess that I have an emotional attachment I've got into a couple discussions with the developers on the blackbox list over docbook. Docbook is relatively new and great more broad uses. runoff was originally a type setting program, rather specific to the hardware it was written around, and now refocused, if you will (at least with groff), on ghostscript and postscript. I've totally oversimplified my description, but perhaps that will give you an idea. Though we often think of troff and UNIX manuals, in the old days you printed the manual off, not read it locally, hence runoff. I can make for groff are also answered by XML and XML has some other advantages. Are other people interested in this or shall I take this off-line with David? I think you are right in several respects. roff seems an 'old timers' app, that is kept around for the man pages and printed material, and otherwise ignored for more widely used word processors, web pages, and XML applications that have a wide variety of document formats available. I have I got the gist of that, Werner? _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff