On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 12:41 -0500, Michael Kerpan wrote: > > 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.
Nick has adapted mm for use with my pdfmark macro set; I myself use a minimally extended ms set, spdf.tmac, which is already provided with versions of groff recent enough to include pdfmark.tmac; it should not be difficult to similarly extend me, and maybe mom and man. I've also provided a front end, pdfroff, to facilitate the use of pdfmark.tmac, driving groff and ghostscript to directly generate PDF; it is agnostic to the user's choice of macro packages, although its features are primarily designed to work with pdfmark.tmac. Regards, Keith.
