Re: [groff] A macro package for lists in TROFF

[Denis M. Wilson]

My -markup package has has fully parametrized lists (enumerated and
itemised) and a stack. The stack means that lists, fonts, displays etc
are nestable. Lists were the hardest, and it took me long time before I
could devise a good way of doing them. The package (not quite the
latest version) is in

http://www.oxytropis.plus.com/groff/markup-1.0.7a.tar.gz

Denis

On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 19:29:34 +0700
Stephanie Björk <address@hidden> wrote:

> Thank you, Pierre-Jean.
> 
> It's amazing that it works in another implementation of Troff that I
> haven't really touched yet.
> Since you told me about Heirloom Troff, I went and see its user's
> manual and found that \n(.g is usually 0, isn't it?  So, that meant
> that my macros would artificially restrict Heirloom users.  I read
> further into the manual and I think that running `.cp 0' before the
> GNU Troff fail-safe may help, or could it actually hinder Heirloom's
> capabilities?
> 
> Actually, the Groff fail-safe in `lists.tmac' has always been kind of
> controversial within my head.  I'm still unsure whether to provide a
> forewarning for convenience or to just let it be and let it fail
> badly in the case of incompatibility.  The only reason why I put that
> `.if' block is just for the rarest case that someone is still using
> classical AT&T Troff, as my macros really use weird, fancy stuff.
> 
> I will add a proper license when I've really finished the macro
> package. Right now, there isn't a demand for numerical lists, and I
> have a ``super-complicated'' plan for numerical lists, which might be
> a little harder to implement.  Nonetheless, the concepts should be
> the same as it is now, ergo it is kind of showable.
> 
> Stephanie
> 
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Pierre-Jean <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Stephanie Björk <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > The project is here: https://github.com/katt64/troff-lists
> > > (bul.tmac is
> > the
> > > beating heart of it all)
> >
> > I had a look, and it is very well done. Thank you for sharing it!
> >
> > I also tested it with heirloom troff, and it seems to work
> > flawlessly.
> >
> > May I suggest you to choose a license? Because in most jurisdiction,
> > the absence of license is far more restricting than any license you
> > could choose: the default copyright is applied, and would'nt even
> > allow us to copy the sources.
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> > Pierre-Jean.
> >


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