Re: [Groff] Trouble with mm

[Larry Kollar]

Cedric Sodhi wrote:

> I recently decided to use mm instead of ms because it appeared that mm
> offered far more but I'm having a hard time getting it to do what I
> want.
> 
> In particular, I'm missing the information about which macro has to be
> invoked when, where and in which context together with what other
> macros.

That was something I attempted to address a while ago, but got sidetracked. The 
goal would be to have mm documented as well as ms is now.

> I thought I'd have to start with specifying the overall format of the
> document …
> 
> .LT BL
> .LO SJ "A subject"
> .MT 5                 \" <--- What *is* a memorandum type?
> .WA "Me" "Mr."
> Blümchenstraße 12
> .WE
> .HU "Dear Mr. or Mrs."
> This is my letter with references\*(Rf
> .RS
> Such as this one
> .RF

The "memorandum type" specifies a particular type of document (which affects 
cover pages and other formatting). I suspect that using .LT and .MT in the same 
document is thus a bad idea.

Some old XENIX documentation I have laying around suggests rearranging the 
order:

.WA "Me" "Mr."
Blümchenstraße 12
.WE
.LO SJ "A subject"
.LT BL
.HU "Dear Mr. or Mrs."
This is my letter with references\*(Rf
.RS
Such as this one
.RF

The idea is that the document type (.LT, .MT, etc) uses the information 
specified by .WA/.WE and .LO to format the "front matter."

As for the ß character, try using the -k option to invoke the preconv(1) 
preprocessor. That should also fix any other non-ASCII characters (vowels with 
umlauts, for example) as well.

Hope this helps,

-- Larry