On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 19:20:46 +1000 "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> At 2020-09-27T18:30:41-0400, James K. Lowden wrote: > > Any suggestions on how -ms macros could be compatibly extended to > > include classes and IDs? I've always found that aspect of my > > "proposal" daunting. > > Well, why not have strings MS-CLASS and MS-ID? The user can set them > with .ds any time they want. The macro implementations can them > implement them as part of devtags embedded in any \X escapes. Thanks for taking up the challenge, Branden. That would work, but IMO wouldn't be very convenient. I was thinking along the lines of .SH id=foo class=bar Your title here or, mdoc style .SH Id foo Class bar Your title here I would like to think that we could compatibly add attributes to macros that don't take arguments. For the most part, when I have mistakenly put text after such macros, the text has been ignored. I harbor the hope that the ignored space could be repurposed, without changing groff, and used by the "ms2html" script. For macros that do take arguments, isn't the space between the last argument and EOL ignored, too? Could .DS I 5n Id foo Class bar be made to work? --jkl
