Re: [Groff] Integer arithmetic

[Patrik Schindler]

Hello Werner,

Am 15.10.2009 um 11:48 schrieb Werner LEMBERG:

> > I am pretty stunned. It's not clear to me why current software has
> > such crude limitations with one must circumvent with even more crude
> > wordarounds.
> TeX is even worse...


Maybe, but the goal is to make it better and not to excuse  
limitations by pointing to other crap, stating "they're making it no  
better", right? ;-)


> > What about enhancing groff and trowing out these limitations?  At
> > least in non-compatible mode there should be no problem, in
> > compatible-mode the limitations could stay for people who rely on
> > this limitations.
> Do you volunteer?


I'd love to, but I'm not really good im programming, no clue of  
object oriented stuff. I still struggle with your code snippet for  
having text flowing around PSPIC-Imports.

And, of course, time is a really limiting factor here.


> You might have a look at heirloom troff's
> implementation which already has such an extension; it makes
> absolutely no sense to program something differently.
>
>   http://heirloom.sourceforge.net


Perhaps someone else will?


:wq! PoC