While I'm in the groff neighborhood, I'd like to ask for advice for a style of layout I don't see any direct support for.
Readers of this list might have read The Annotated Alice. The text of Alice in Wonderland is full size, and the outer edges of the page have copious side-notes whose vertical location coincides with the text they're commenting on. Reading the text, the reader can easily refer to the running commentary along the edge. Depending on mood and interest, sometimes the commentary is more interesting than the text itself. Like footnotes, the sidenotes are distinguished from the main text by the font size. Unlike footnotes, they alternate location on odd and even pages. I don't see any simple way of using .2C in -ms to emulate that layout, nor does .MCO in MOM look suitable. I suppose it requires a whole different set of macros. How would you approach it? --jkl
