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Re: [DRAFT] Revised groff ms manual for review
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Damian McGuckin |
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Re: [DRAFT] Revised groff ms manual for review |
Date: |
Sun, 1 Nov 2020 10:55:07 +1100 (AEDT) |
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Alpine 2.02 (LRH 1266 2009-07-14) |
On Sun, 1 Nov 2020, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
The ability to define macros to tackle the particular needs of an
individual document is among the strengths of roff - and, as you
recently documented, it has been since AT&T Version 3 UNIX in 1973.
Well before my time!
I'm regularly using a small number of macros of my own on top of a
standard macro set;
Ditto, although most are associated with fonts, font-size, justification
and other style stuff.
i tend to use -mm for my presentations rather than -ms, but that makes
no difference with respect to the basic idea.
nDitto on the first and agreed on the second.
Regards - Damian
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