29 Nov
2018
29 Nov
'18
7:52 p.m.
On 2018-11-28 23:25 , arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
Any chance you, or someone else, could write that
missing manual that
explains the "why" of the various troff features?
I've been through CSTR 54 a few times too, although I haven't tried
to write a macro package from scratch, and I have to admit that there
are things that mystify me.
There is a lot to be mystified about in *roff but there is a lot to like
as well. If you are going to start to look into one, I'd strongly urge
you to look at groff & friends. It's by far the most actively developed
tool in the roff family.
I'm happy to answer what questions I can (though there is stuff that's
faded like the whole environment stack thing). I've not written an
entire macro package either, but I've written a bunch of macros. And
done a bunch of stuff in pic, I love pic. I got James to put the
`i'th last <whatever>
construct into pic. Super useful.