Hi I can see that nobody has replied. Pleas don't worry about it. It's not anything critical to me it's just sometimes nice to have a little input from others. I think that tbl is the route go for me. But don't worry about giving an answer unless you feel inspired to do so :-). Greetings Mikkel
Den 15. aug. 2017 5.30 PM skrev "mikkel meinike" <[email protected]>: > Dear Groff-group. > > I've been using Groff with Mom Macro for many years and really been happy > about it. Peter's good educational documents that explained all aspects > were simply what made me my way to getting started with Groff. The > documents for the other macro packages were just too hard to get into for > me. > > The main reason I now want to change away from Mom is to get better HTML > rendering. The HTML rendering from a mom-based document is not good. I see > many advantages of being able to render my document to HTML. The goal is, > therefore, to be able to make a document that looks exactly like what I > have done with Mom, but in the underlying markup that is set up so that it > also produce great to HTML. > > Peter has written at some point that if I want good HTML rendering, I > should use MS Macro. I would also like to, but in the first place, I have > started to put the document in clean Groff. I have found this very > inspiring. It has been the excitement of getting closer to the requests > that lie behind the macro requests that I have used with mom. It has also > been a journey in the story of how Groff has emerged. Finally, it has been > fun to get a little closer to PostScript as I think you're going with clean > Groff. I've been interested in Postscript some years ago. > > Well, the reason I'm writing to you is that I saw when I was trying render > my pure Groff document to HTML, that the head of the document (name and > adress and that) did not translate particularly well to HTML. > > The question for you is how I should format my Groff doc so that it looks > like the one that I have attached but also would look somewhat the same > when translate in to into HTML? Should I use indents instead of tabs? > Should I use ms instead of pure groff? Other suggestions? > > As you can see, there is also a mistake with the colors. I would also like > to receive suggestions for how this error can be eliminated in the HTML > rendering. > > Comment to the attached PDF: As you will see, a background has been added > to this document. This background is inserted with the PDF tool pdftk. I > have found that it is much easier to make a conversion script that includes > a procedure that inserts a background image into the finished PDF with the > help from Pdftk than it is to insert the background image using Groff. > > Summer greetings to you all > > Mikkel > >
