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
Hello Ralph,
I'm not too familiar with troff/groff. My only exposure is through Peter
Shaffter's MOM macros.
However the approach you are describing is-I suspect-what I am trying to
achieve with the Markdown-MOM writer script, but going a step further and
automating the addition of macros for
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014, Yves Cloutier wrote:
Note that what I am generating are elements as defined by Peter's MOM
Macros - not pure troff/groff.
So in a sense, the second pass, as you describe (and if I understood it
correctly) is automated by the Markdown-MOM writer script.
You write
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014, James K. Lowden wrote:
Do you use stylesheets for documents? I've been writing on a computer
since the days of Wordstar, and never felt the need. I think most
people rely on the defaults and adjust them as needed, per-document.
Which may explain the low-level
Hello,
I have begun working on a custom writer for Pandoc to convert Markdown into
MOM, Peter's Groff macro set. You can check it out here.
https://github.com/cloutiy/markdown-to-mom
I will upload my files in a few hours once I arrive home from work.
I'm not a developer or programmer, so
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014, Yves Cloutier wrote:
Right now I have hardcoded some default values into the script that
generates the MOM code, but the idea will be that all those settings that
relate to HOW you want your document to look (like page size, margins,
heading styles) would be specified in
