Hi all. Reading through a few of the threads on Reddit what others are using groff for got me to thinking that I have a use case that has to be better than what I've been doing. One practice I have adopted recently is to print the address and return address directly to an envelope as I will readily admit my handwriting is not all that readable. Specifically I mostly use US sized #6 3/4 and #10 envelopes personally and for an organization I am the treasurer for.
My first effort was to use Libre Office Writer and it works well to print #6 3/4 envelopes but has a long standing bug that causes the address blocks to be shifted downward on a #10 envelope to the point it is not usable for the task. I resorted to using a proprietary word processing program in a virtual machine. This works but is not ideal either for various reasons. My thought turned to groff today and my Web searches came up empty with only a couple of links to people talking about such macros, but no code. So I ask, is there something I missed in the standard macro packages? My searches there turned up nothing for envelopes. As I see it, with groff I can easily create files for addresses I use often and should be able to code a script that accepts those one-off addresses. Other than man pages, I'm a total novice to the rest of groff and its macro packages. I'd rather not reinvent a macro package that someone else has gotten working and made available for the rest of us. TIA - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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