Re: [Groff] Macro packages

2012-09-23 Thread Luis Anaya
trebol trebol55...@yahoo.es writes: Hello all, Hi I?m new using groff. Cool! Can anyone tell me a short introduc? tion to the ms, mm, me, mom macro packages? I would like to I have been working with the mm Macros since the 1987. I'm more familiar with them. However, I've worked on

[Groff] Macro packages

2012-09-23 Thread trebol
Thanks, Luis, Brian. This is the sort of testimony I’m look‐ ing for. I believe mom is a good choice for starting out with groff since both the documentation and the macros themselves are newbie friendly. Thanks Peter. I think mom may be in the future the LaTeX of groff (without waste 1G

Re: [Groff] [groff] Macro Packages

2012-09-23 Thread Doug McIlroy
Can anyone tell me a short introduction to the ms, mm, me, mom macro packages? Because it's been in my fingers for 30 years, I use ms and the preprocessors for everything that I'm likely to want to keep the source for. It requires you to know some underlying troff, for example to set number

Re: [Groff] Macro packages

2012-09-23 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012, trebol wrote: ...but for now I prefer play with the gear, nuts and bolts and keep me near the groff’s bases to learn the system snip so maybe I’ll try ms Given how you want to approach learning groff, ms would be my choice, too. -- Peter Schaffter Author of The

Re: [Groff] Macro Packages

2012-09-23 Thread Doug McIlroy
Correction. Lesk's intro to -ms is at http://plan9.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/vol2/msmacros.bun Sorry for the error, Doug McIlroy