Re: [Groff] ds in tmac

[Robert Goulding]

On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 02:56 PM, (Ted Harding) wrote:

> Hi Erich!
>
> On 05-Sep-03 Erich Hoffmann wrote:
> > I'm using groff now some time for most of my writing projects and
> > with the normal use of it I'm quite at ease.  But I'm a full blown
> > newbie to groff hacking, to be honest to any programming at all.
> >
> >    To gather some experience I got the idea of a sort of typesetting
> > chess diagrams with groff.  I want to use it.  Especially I want to
> > typeset fairy chess diagrams, retro games &c.  Googeling said that
> > there is no such thing by now.
>
> I'm not sure of all your motives with this exercise! If you simply want
> to produce an end-product which consists of [fairy]chess diagrams, then
> I'd suggest you try a different way.
There is a chess preprocessor for troff called notation.  Google found 
it at:

http://www.landfield.com/software/comp.sources.misc/packages/notation

I have no idea whether it compiles easily or what sort of output it 
provides, but it may be worth looking at for ideas.

Robert.