Re: Introducing mu, my new macro package

[Mike Bianchi]

> So if you see a one-letter macro, it's definitely a macro and not a
> standard troff request.

True.  But I must memorize that
  .x
 is a font-change macro.  If it were
   .Ufont bi
I am more likely to remember that the font will change to Bold Italic.
And it is from the U set.
And someday it could take the  cbi  argument.  Constant-Width Bold Italic


But I say again, very nice!
Welcome to the Macro Writers Guild.

                                                                Mike




On Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 09:44:13PM +0200, John Ankarström wrote:
> Den 2021-07-01 kl. 21:15 skrev Mike Bianchi:
> > With just a quick glance, I like what you've done.
> > I can see myself using it sometime soon.
> > 
> > One suggestion, give the Inline, Environment and Other macros 2 or 3
> > character names with a common theme so they stand separate from the groff
> > commands and macros.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > I have so many documents where _all_ the groff actions are in lower case
> > and I don't know where to look when I need to understand the action and
> > syntax.  Is it native groff?  Or the mm macro package?  Or something I 
> > wrote?
> > 
> > Now when writing my own macros I tend to make them start with a capital 
> > letter
> > or be all capitals.
> 
> Thanks a lot!  The neat thing about the one-letter lowercase macros,
> though, is that all built-in troff macros are two letters (or more).  So
> if you see a one-letter macro, it's definitely a macro and not a
> standard troff request.

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