[Groff] Re: Why is it

[Michael Kerpan]

> And if you are looking for other examples, several international
> standards, including both the C and POSIX standards, are good examples
> of large, popular, *roff based publications (and always have been).
>
> The current version of POSIX (due to be published next year) is almost
> 4,000 pages of hyperlinked PDF (thanks to Keith Marshall's pdfmark
> macros) in a supserset of the mm macros (with a good amount of tbl and
> eqn preprocessor). And if we had to start over again, though there are a
> few TeX proponents around the committees, I am certain we would use
> groff again ....

Wow. Is there any chance that this superset of -mm can/will be made
generally available? I'm currently an -me fan, but a macro set capable
of providing useful formatting for a 4000 page document is something
quite cool.

Mike