Introducing mu, my new macro package

2021-07-01 Thread John Ankarström
Hi all! I've been working on my own troff macro package for the last couple of weeks, and I thought I'd share it with you here: http://ankarstrom.se/~john/mu.html The package is called "mu". In summary: It is simple, flexible and small: u.tmac is only 417 lines. It has footnotes and tab

Re: Introducing mu, my new macro package

2021-07-01 Thread Mike Bianchi
> http://ankarstrom.se/~john/mu.html With just a quick glance, I like what you've done. I can see myself using it sometime soon. One suggestion, give the Inline, Environment and Other macros 2 or 3 character names with a common theme so they stand separate from the groff commands and macros. May

Re: Introducing mu, my new macro package

2021-07-01 Thread Oliver Corff
Hi John, I just read the README.pdf file and then had a look at the source code. Things are really intuitive, like .( .) for footnotes. I can't identify any "missing feature" yet. Au contraire, it offers tables of contents which do not need to be placed at the end of the document (like with the m

Re: Introducing mu, my new macro package

2021-07-01 Thread pierrejean.fic...@posteo.net
Hello John, Thank you for sharing your work. I've browsed your documentation, and love your mu package, and your usage of environments. Simplicity is neat ! I feel a bit concerned by your choosen name though, as I fear a name conflict with my own macro set, utmac. While it does not use the

Re: Introducing mu, my new macro package

2021-07-01 Thread John Ankarström
Den 2021-07-01 kl. 21:15 skrev Mike Bianchi: > With just a quick glance, I like what you've done. > I can see myself using it sometime soon. > > One suggestion, give the Inline, Environment and Other macros 2 or 3 > character names with a common theme so they stand separate from the groff > comman

Re: Introducing mu, my new macro package

2021-07-01 Thread Mike Bianchi
> So if you see a one-letter macro, it's definitely a macro and not a > standard troff request. True. But I must memorize that .x is a font-change macro. If it were .Ufont bi I am more likely to remember that the font will change to Bold Italic. And it is from the U set. And someday it cou

Re: Introducing mu, my new macro package

2021-07-01 Thread John Ankarström
Den 2021-07-01 kl. 21:33 skrev pierrejean.fic...@posteo.net: > Thank you for sharing your work. I've browsed your documentation, > and love your mu package, and your usage of environments. Simplicity > is neat ! Thank you! > I feel a bit concerned by your choosen name though, as I fear a > name c

Re: Introducing mu, my new macro package

2021-07-01 Thread John Ankarström
Den 2021-07-01 kl. 21:32 skrev Oliver Corff: > I just read the README.pdf file and then had a look at the source code. > Things are really intuitive, like .( .) for footnotes. I can't identify > any "missing feature" yet. [...] > > Congratulations, I do think this is a nice complement to the exist

Re: Introducing mu, my new macro package

2021-07-01 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Thu, Jul 01, 2021, John Ankarström wrote: > I've been working on my own troff macro package for the last couple of > weeks, and I thought I'd share it with you here: As Mike said, welcome to the Macro Writers Guild. :) -- Peter Schaffter https://www.schaffter.ca

Re: Introducing mk [was: Introducing mu, my new macro package]

2021-07-01 Thread John Ankarström
After feedback from Jean-Pierre, I've renamed the package to mk -- which seems not to be taken yet! Den 2021-07-01 kl. 20:09 skrev John Ankarström: > Hi all! > > I've been working on my own troff macro package for the last couple of > weeks, and I thought I'd share it with you here: > > http://a

Re: Introducing mk [was: Introducing mu, my new macro package]

2021-07-27 Thread kleinbottle4
Hello all, Just noticed a small typo in Ankarström's mk/mk/README.t: $ diff README.t fix.t 812c812 < .i ux.tmac . --- > .i kx.tmac . I assume it is meant now meant to be kx.tmac after the name change? Kind regards, kleinbottle4 On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 10:21:15PM +0200, Jo