> And if you are looking for other examples, several international > standards, including both the C and POSIX standards, are good examples > of large, popular, *roff based publications (and always have been). > > The current version of POSIX (due to be published next year) is almost > 4,000 pages of hyperlinked PDF (thanks to Keith Marshall's pdfmark > macros) in a supserset of the mm macros (with a good amount of tbl and > eqn preprocessor). And if we had to start over again, though there are a > few TeX proponents around the committees, I am certain we would use > groff again ....
Wow. Is there any chance that this superset of -mm can/will be made generally available? I'm currently an -me fan, but a macro set capable of providing useful formatting for a 4000 page document is something quite cool. Mike