On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 07:02:21 -0800 (PST)
Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 8:24:09 PM UTC+5:30, Dale Snell wrote:
> > On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 05:55:46 -0800 (PST)
> > Rusi  wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > groff development is dead (best I know)
> > > groff images -- Hoo! Boy!!
> > > 
> > 
> > Groff development is not dead.  Slow, yes, very slow.  But dead, no.
> > Most of the recent work has been done in the macro packages (MOM in
> > particular), but changes to the base C++ code are in the design
> > stages.  Review the Groff mailing list for more information.
> > (Anybody who wants to help is welcome.)
> > 
> 
> heh -- sweet!
> How does mom compare to mm -- (the only macro set I ever used)?

That's hard for me to say, since I've never used mm.  :-)  However,
mm is like ms, in that all the macros and escapes consist of one
or two characters.  Mom, on the other hand, takes advantage of
Groff's long names.  This allows for much more understandable
macro and escape names.  So instead of, say, ".Co", mom would use
".COLLATE", and so on.  Mom separates typographic controls from
documentation controls.  So you can create an epigraph, say,
without having to fiddle with vertical and horizontal spacing --
mom does all that for you.  (That's kind of a cheat; mom has a
.EPIGRAPH macro, so it's easy to set up.)

To be honest, the best way to get a handle on mom is to check out
Peter Schaffter's web site.  He has _extensive_ HTML documentation
for mom there.  The online docs are at:

    <http://www.schaffter.ca/mom/momdoc/toc.html>

Mom isn't perfect, of course.  But I find it quite enjoyable to
use.

Anyway, I hope this helps.

--Dale

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