Re: problem with mm macros

[Robert Goulding]

Actually, I now see that documents headed with .LT don't use .AU etc., but
.WA. And for the most part it works.

But there is still a bug, with one of the four types of letters.

Try this:

.LT SP
.WA "John Doe"
Nowhere,
USA.
.WE
.IA "Jane Smith"
Somewhere,
UK.
.IE
.LO SJ "Letter of Introduction"
.LO SA "Dear Ms Smith"
.P
This is the text of the letter.
.FC "Yours sincerely"
.SG

You'll find that: The subject line shows only the first word; the formal
closing is omitted completely; and the writer's name at the bottom is
followed by a trailing comma.

If you change the first line to
.LT BL

or one of the other types, everything is printed correctly.

Robert.

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 9:55 AM Robert Goulding <Robert.D.Goulding.2@nd.edu>
wrote:

> I get the same result; and then tried variants with .LT instead of .MT,
> and the signature is not produced at all!
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 9:44 AM Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm a newcomer to roff and have just begun reading the book 'UNIX
>> Document Processing and Typesetting'. There is an example of a letter in
>> there thay I enclose here, necause it shows the poblem:
>>
>> .ND "January 1, 1999"
>> .AU "Dr. Gray Hound"
>> .AT "Project Leader"
>> .MT 5
>> .DS
>> Our Reference: prog/001
>> Your Reference: xyz/100
>> .SP 4
>> Mr. William Smith
>> Chief Advisor
>> Consult the Consultants
>> Penny House
>> Graceland
>> .DE
>> .SP 3
>> Dear Mr. Smith
>> .SP 2
>> .ce
>> Recruitment of a Programmer
>> .fi
>> .SP 2
>> .P
>> With reference to our discussion over lunch at the West Gate Club,
>> the requirements of the programmer are as follows:
>> .P
>> The programmer should be conversant in all computer programming languages
>> and be ready to develop any kind of software using different computers.
>> The programmer must also be willing to do administrative and paperwork
>> to get his/her pay.
>> .P
>> Although the requirements may seem to be unusual, I am sure
>> that with your company's expertise in head hunting, finding a
>> suitable person for the above-mentioned position will be a trivial matter.
>> .P
>> Hope to hear from you soon.
>> .FC Sincerely yours
>> .SG
>>
>> Now the problem is that groff doesn't show the author's title below the
>> author's name. Both heirloom and neatroff do, so it is maybe a bug in
>> groff? Also both heirloom and neatroff show name and tile in bold,
>> whereas groff only shows the name an does not do so in bold.
>>
>> Maybe someone with more experience in roff can explain what goes wrong.
>>
>> Sincerly,
>>
>> Andreas Eder
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Robert Goulding
> Director, John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values;
> Director, Program in History and Philosophy of Science;
> Assoc. Professor, Program of Liberal Studies,
> Fellow, Medieval Institute,
> University of Notre Dame.
>


-- 
Robert Goulding
Director, John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values;
Director, Program in History and Philosophy of Science;
Assoc. Professor, Program of Liberal Studies,
Fellow, Medieval Institute,
University of Notre Dame.