Re: [Groff] Proposed revised START macro for mom

[Peter Schaffter]

James --

On Sat, Jan 11, 2003, James J. Ramsey wrote:
> --- Peter Schaffter <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Is there an
> > advantage I'm not seeing to setting, say, the
> > chapter string with
> > 
> >     .ds $CHAPTER_STRING <whatever>
> > 
> > instead of
> > 
> >     .CHAPTER_STRING <whatever>
> > 
> > in a document?
<snip>
> This is less an issue of
> coding and more an issue of convention and
> documentation.

Understood.  This is what I was thinking.  As things stand now in the
docs, the "Reserved Keywords" appendix merely lists every macro,
string, register and diversion used by mom.  I have been thinking it
would be a good idea to separate the list into "internal" (not for
playing around with) and "external" (user definable by conventional
groff means) keywords.

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