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

[Jon Snader]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:12:10AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > 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.

Take a look at the Tech. Memo Cover Sheet macro (TR, I think)
from the original AT&T ms macros.  They do exactly this--in fact
that cover sheet is very similar to the one the original poster
pointed to.

jcs