My -markup package has has fully parametrized lists (enumerated and itemised) and a stack. The stack means that lists, fonts, displays etc are nestable. Lists were the hardest, and it took me long time before I could devise a good way of doing them. The package (not quite the latest version) is in
http://www.oxytropis.plus.com/groff/markup-1.0.7a.tar.gz Denis On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 19:29:34 +0700 Stephanie Björk <katt16777...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you, Pierre-Jean. > > It's amazing that it works in another implementation of Troff that I > haven't really touched yet. > Since you told me about Heirloom Troff, I went and see its user's > manual and found that \n(.g is usually 0, isn't it? So, that meant > that my macros would artificially restrict Heirloom users. I read > further into the manual and I think that running `.cp 0' before the > GNU Troff fail-safe may help, or could it actually hinder Heirloom's > capabilities? > > Actually, the Groff fail-safe in `lists.tmac' has always been kind of > controversial within my head. I'm still unsure whether to provide a > forewarning for convenience or to just let it be and let it fail > badly in the case of incompatibility. The only reason why I put that > `.if' block is just for the rarest case that someone is still using > classical AT&T Troff, as my macros really use weird, fancy stuff. > > I will add a proper license when I've really finished the macro > package. Right now, there isn't a demand for numerical lists, and I > have a ``super-complicated'' plan for numerical lists, which might be > a little harder to implement. Nonetheless, the concepts should be > the same as it is now, ergo it is kind of showable. > > Stephanie > > On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Pierre-Jean <li...@utroff.org> wrote: > > > Stephanie Björk <katt16777...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > The project is here: https://github.com/katt64/troff-lists > > > (bul.tmac is > > the > > > beating heart of it all) > > > > I had a look, and it is very well done. Thank you for sharing it! > > > > I also tested it with heirloom troff, and it seems to work > > flawlessly. > > > > May I suggest you to choose a license? Because in most jurisdiction, > > the absence of license is far more restricting than any license you > > could choose: the default copyright is applied, and would'nt even > > allow us to copy the sources. > > > > Kind Regards, > > Pierre-Jean. > > --
