Hi Yves, > I have begun working on a custom writer for Pandoc to convert Markdown > into MOM, Peter's Groff macro set.
This is a nice idea. I see quite a few programs about that support various formats for backends, e.g. HTML and LaTeX, and often think having troff there too would raise its visibility. > Groff and MOM are extremely lightweight and comiling a document is > blazing fast. The only drawback is that writing in pure MOM---as with > writing in pure LaTeX/ConText---is that it can be distracting to have > to write so many tags while typing. True, though it can be useful to approach it the same way as identifying index entries; as a separate pass. Enter plain text, as if writing an email, using indentation, etc., to show types of content, and then go back and add macros and escapes, e.g. that \& after the final dot of `e.g.'. What I find about the end result is it's still more readable that TeX because the mark-up isn't so noisy. Cheers, Ralph.
