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
> 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
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
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
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
> 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
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
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
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
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
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
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