Re: [Groff] groff documentation

[Jon Snader]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 07:01:17AM -0500, Larry Kollar wrote:
> 
> Larry McVoy wrote:
> 
> >>>I've always found it weird that groff docs aren't in roff, seems a
> >>>bit lame.
> >>
> >>Basically I agree, but texinfo has some useful capabilities not
> >>available with groff.
> >
> >Grumble.  Double grumble.  I really really want groff to documented with
> >groff.
> 
> A grumble repeated down through the ages (well, at least since
> I've been reading this list) by many people....
> 
> >What is it that you need out of
> >texinfo and why is that not being added to groff?  BitMover isn't a
> >wealthy company but if some donations would help I'd at the very least
> >consider it.
> 
> I would guess that what's missing is built-in TOC and xref processing.
> My opinion is that's not all that important because the problem can be
> solved using external processing (see mmroff(1) for one solution).
> Beyond that, frankly, I'm not sure what texinfo offers besides the FSF's
> blessing.
> 

I agree.  I implemented both TOC and cross referencing in exactly
this way (albeit with the 1TMP, ms) for my book.  It's pretty easy
to make this stuff transparent in the same way that LaTeX is by using
a make file as we did for UTP.

Jon Snader