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Re: Portability to Mac OS X (was: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS


From: Deri
Subject: Re: Portability to Mac OS X (was: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS)
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 20:42:31 +0100

On Friday, 29 October 2021 19:38:42 BST T. Kurt Bond wrote:
> [I hit "reply" on my previous attempt at this email, so it went only to
> Ralph.  Sorry about that.  At least this version has the correct CSTR #.]
> I'm an emacs user, and I use the info version of the groff texinfo manual,
> as well as the manual pages, and usually go to the trouble of getting the
> PDF version of the groff texinfo manual as well.  I tend to use the manual
> pages for quick reference and the info version for more detailed reading.
> While I'd miss the info version, I also understand why the groff
> project would rather have its documentation in a groff-native format.
> 
> One advantage that the texinfo manual has that *isn't* built into groff -ms
> is the multiple indexes that the texinfo manual produces.  I suspect
> someone properly motivated could produce something that would do that,
> based on CSTR 128, "Tools for Printing Indexes", and pdfmark, at least for
> PDF output.  I have no idea what would be necessary for HTML output.

The pdf I sent to the list yesterday:-

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2021-10/msg00094.html

Is produced entirely by groff and has a full clickable index.

Cheers 

Deri



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