Re: [Groff] ds in tmac

[Robert Goulding]

Quoting Erich Hoffmann <address@hidden>:

> Hello all!
> 
> 
> End of next week I'm going away for a month or so, but before I'd like
> to let those who helped me know what I'm doing with groff by now.
> 
> BTW I'm wondering:  This was a high-volume list some years ago.  What
> happened?

It still is pretty high-volume, or at least it has been for the last year.  I
guess things slow down over the summer and (for some of us) the start of the
university term.  Things see to pick up in the winter, when there's nothing to
do but fiddle with groff macros...
> 
>    When I remembered that groff is able to produce plain ascii output,
> I got the idea to write a tool for my use.tmac, i.e. a tmac file that
> is able to produce tmac files as output: "ac.tmac".  Besides being a
> good practice because it adds an escape level to certain sequences,
> is perhaps less crazy as it looks like at first sight.  With ac.tmac I
> can have a tmac file with automatic numbered sections, multiple tables
> of contents and cross references, so that navigation and orientation
> will be much easier.  I'm planning to insert macros for a postscript
> output of the comments.
> 

This sound excellent - like the self-documenting files used in LaTeX.  Can you
post some examples?

Robert.

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Robert Goulding
Program of Liberal Studies
University of Notre Dame