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Re: [Groff] Something about mom & questions
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Daniele F. |
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Re: [Groff] Something about mom & questions |
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Sun, 19 Oct 2003 11:58:47 +0200 |
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On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 03:05:22AM -0400, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> Youch! :) And he wants 'em simple, too. :) :)
Oh yes, simple: my mind is a non expanded one... :-)
> Lists have been on the TODO list for quite a while. I've been
> avoiding them because they're a headache, typographically. They
> look best with the list enumerator hung, which isn't so hard to set
> up for single column text, but gets tricky with multiple columns.
> Then there's what to do about nested lists. Oh, boy.
I know, my requests are hard ones but you wrote a 300 Kb macro package
using groff so you are a good tough boy, enough to implement new
listing macros... :-)
Seriously: I think "mom" is a great piece of work (personally I'd never
had the tenacy for something similar---especially for documentation,
that is something of essential for such works) and macros for lists will
give it completeness.
> However, since you demand it (I like that), I'll start working on
> it stat. Can't promise immediate results; I'm working to deadlines
> on other things.
Oh, I'm patient so I'll wait for it until you wants... :-)
> All caps can't be helped. It's the safest way of avoiding
> conflicts with groff primitives.
Ok, that's not a real problem, only a my idiosyncrasy.
> > $Revision: 1.12 $ 1 / 7
> > ^
> > I don't want it! :-)
>
> It never occured to me that someone might want to roll their own
> drafts the way you described. Now that I know, it's any easy fix.
RCS is an excellent tool also for every kind of texts, not only for
code: when one likes he can read all past versions of his work and look
at changes he made "automatically" and all that without wasting space
conserving multiple files. I like (and often need) to have those RCS
tags exposed on printed draft copies.
> Give me a day or two to test out my changes, then I'll post a
> patch.
Ok, thanks a lot.
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