Hello alls, Tadziu Hoffmann <hoffm...@usm.uni-muenchen.de> wrote: > Note that I'm not saying that you should generally not > write your own macros. On the contrary, I'm all for it.
I must say that discussion gave me the uncomfortable feeling that people were advocating against writing personal macros. I think that writing a personal macro is a perfect way to use groff. The original troff documentation is short and well done, giving enough clues for people to dive in the language by themselves. That makes writing macros relatively easy, and that's why I love troff, because, unfortunately, one simply has to have a particular need in term of data input format, layout, or localization (think at the macros formatting refer output) to need a custom macro set or a hacked one. Kind regards, Pierre-Jean.
