Robert Thorsby wrote: > On 29/12/09 12:01:07, Chuck Robey wrote: >> Look, I think I'm going to probably bore >> the list to death over the rather dense >> topic of the html macros, so unless I get >> some comments here and now, I'll take >> this private to Gaius Mulley and Werner Lemberg. > > Bearing in mind that this is a low traffic list and that the topics > covered range from "Where is the 'any' key" to stuff that exists only > in the stratosphere, I hope that you continue the discussion through > the list. > > I, for one, won't be bored -- bamboozled, perhaps -- but never bored. > Besides, macros is what groff is all about. > > My $0.02.
Of course, I got this right after AI sent my mail to Gaius Mulley and Werner Lemberg. I asked them to decide about bothering the list, so I'll leave it up to them, such a thing as this is really, really going to raise the noise level here (for the short term) so I want to be certain I won't be irritating a bunch of folks. I'm too new on this list to be willing to launch off something this big without a bit of trepidation. You ever see the Sam's book on Unix system typesetting? I think I saw a pdf of it on the web a year or two ago, (I have TWO printed copies of it!), and you ought to consider looking at it, it's easily the most readable things on all aspects of roff programming available. You need to have several of the things from Bell Labs available while you read macros, but it's a really, really good start on things.
