Re: [Groff] poll: which macro packages are in common use / and why.

[Larry McVoy]

> The reason we use these is they automatically produce a very nice cover
> sheet which readers of our reports appreciate (example at:
> 
> http://www.smtl.co.uk/~pete/troff/pete-mm-cover-sheet.pdf
> 
> For the rest, we usually use the groff_mm macros (I'm sure we could
> probably rig up a cover sheet like the one above if one of us had enough
> gtroff expertise, then we could move to that entirely). 

I don't think this is that hard, is the problem you don't have the
knowledge to position all that stuff?  It seems to me that you want a
template with all the stuff that you fill in as defined strings, you
modify those strings and you have your cover sheet, right?  We do 
our commercial invoices like that.
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