Re: [Groff] Macro Packages

2012-10-05 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Fri, Oct 05, 2012, Grigoriy A. Sitkarev wrote: Let me please express my opinion and share experience. I enjoyed your musings. For me, groff is like somebody handing me a printer's version of a Mecano set and saying: Here, go build something cool. -- Peter Schaffter Author of The Binbrook

Re: [Groff] New release of -markup

2012-10-05 Thread Denis M. Wilson
Hello James, Thanks for trying it. Yes, 'supersede' -- I must have had cedere in mind. I don't really know about writing portable makefiles. I don't have any 'if' statements in mine -- are you referring to the 'include' statements? The other places for problems are special variables like $

Re: [Groff] New release of -markup

2012-10-05 Thread Johann Höchtl
On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 12:23:17 -0400 James K. Lowden jklow...@schemamania.org wrote: http://www.oxytropis.plus.com/groff/ Is there a way to specifify different paper sizes but A4 and A5? If not, I suggest adding at least letter and legal (I am not US, but afaik those formats are widely used

Re: [Groff] New release of -markup

2012-10-05 Thread Denis M. Wilson
On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:10:48 +0200 Johann Höchtl johann.hoec...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to specifify different paper sizes but A4 and A5? If not, I suggest adding at least letter and legal (I am not US, but afaik those formats are widely used there) There could be, I suggest, a

Re: [Groff] Macro Packages

2012-10-05 Thread Grigoriy A. Sitkarev
I am glad to hear that my efforts were not useless. In my childhood I had a set of Meccano‐like toys and I find your analogy to be well‐suited to describe the process of type‐ setting with troff too. I also want to thank you, Peter, for your mom package. Some ideas I took from your