On Thursday 20 Oct 2005 19:46, Larry Kollar wrote: > Is anyone collecting the "reasons for using groff" that have been > going by in this thread? Such a collection would be a fine beginning > to an advocacy/"Why Use groff" chapter in UTP (or a standalone web > page). I'd be particularly interested in seeing James Deri send in a > write-up about his monster print jobs. (We could put that under a > heading like, "Scale THIS!" :-D)
My "monster" print jobs are client valuations for a Stockbroker. Groff is used in the final stage to actually typeset the report, including a barcode on each page to control the "finishing" at the printers, (i.e. Envelope closure, mailbag switching - output is mail sorted to reduce postage costs). The system uses data from 3 sources: the raw data to go in the report, one or more Templates (similar to CSS) which describe the "look" of the report, and a simple procedural language similar to FileTab/FTL6 which controls the logic and structure of the report. These 3 elements are then combined/sorted into a .trf file and converted to postscript by groff. Cheers Deri _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
