Re: [groff] mom date string

[Damian McGuckin]

On Tue, 9 Jul 2019, Ingo Schwarze wrote:

> Logically, inserting the date at compile time doesn't really make sense. 
> You don't want the date of compiling there, you want the date the letter 
> was written and originally sent.  So there is really value in having the 
> author enter the date manually.

The 'mm' macros produce the new-date macro, ND

        .ND "9th July 2019"

while redefines the DT (date) string from its compile time value while

        \*(DT

interpolates it, e.g.

        .ti +4i
        \*(DT

Regards - Damian

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