Re: Need background on design of groff character classes
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On 10.01.26 15:43, G. Branden Robinson wrote: ... > We should also avoid being unrealistic about the breadth of groff's > deployment for any purpose but rendering man pages. I'm not happy about > that disproportion, but I'll celebrate it if it gives us more latitude > to make improvements to the formatter's language such that it will > become a more appealing vehicle for typesetting in general. A small > (applicable) userbase gives a developer flexibility that they're wise to > exercise, as Stuart Feldman of Bell Labs learned after he'd lost it.[3] That's great to hear. I'm here exclusively to learn whether groff is useful in general typesetting. Admittedly, when time permits, it is interesting to fiddle a bit to see what it can do, just because it is a classical tool ... and it isn't GUI ... and Latex looks unduly complicated. The various markups tend to grate, so I've just used a few lines of AWK to convert easy-to-type input to groff for italics, etc. The flowing and page numbering groff offers do most of the rest, and tbl is nifty. I must get back to playing with it. Regards, Erik