Re: typesetting.{mom,pdf} and the groff build system (was: proposed "headline" items for groff 1.24.0)

On Friday, 30 January 2026 17:44:35 GMT Peter Schaffter wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2026, Deri via GNU roff typesetting system discussion wrote:
> > > If Peter's designed his page layouts flexibly enough that Helvetica
> > > would look (about) as attractive as New Century Schoolbook, then I
> > > reckon that might work.[1]  We could then rip out the conditional
> > > bracketing generation of the "typesetting.pdf" target.
> > 
> > That's for Peter to decide. I am still seeing build issues. :-(
> 
> typesetting.mom uses N and P for variety (demonstrating families),
> but where either is used, T is an acceptable substitute.  There's no
> reason to use H as the replacement.  With trivial tweaks, both the
> original and the Times Roman versions produce identical layouts.
> 
> typesetting.mom currently has this:
> 
>   .ie '\*[.T]'ps' \
>   .FAM      N     \" New Century Schoolbook family
>   .el .if '\*[.T]'pdf' \
>   .FAM      U-N
> 
> Is replacing the whole block (and the corresponding block for P) with
> 
>   .ie F NR .FAM N
>   .el .FAM T
> 
> sufficient, or do '\*[.T]'ps' and '\*[.T]'pdf' still need to be
> handled separately?

No need 'F NR' will always be true with -Tps output.

Cheers

Deri