Hello Roy, Roy Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/28/19 4:51 AM, Pierre-Jean Fichet wrote: > > masterpieces of typographic details. > > 1) https://github.com/reffort/troffmanual/blob/master/troffdoc-mk.pdf > > While I won't disagree too loudly with the first part, that particular > document is the exact opposite. It is a utility document, a gdiffmk > markup that exists only to flag the location of changes that were made > to the nroff/troff user's manual; it doesn't use paragraph adjustment at > all.
I was not clear enough, sorry. I meant the document describes a tool able to produce masterpieces of typographic details, not that the document was such a masterpiece. ;) > The description document has more detail about how to use the requests. > It will probably be more useful initially than the nroff/troff user's > manual. It can can be found at: > https://github.com/reffort/typo-tests-documents/blob/master/typotests-doc.pdf I am discovering here you're the author of these changes. That's a fantastic work you've made. It's really encouraging me to try heirloom again, and I hope, other troff enthusiasts too. > I downloaded utmac some time ago when you first posted about it. There > are some interesting ideas in there, but I haven't studied it in as much > detail as I would like. It is honestly too much based on my own needs to be useful as something more than an inspiration. Kind regards, Pierre-Jean.
