Hi Deri, On Fri, Apr 02 2021 at 02:11:02 PM, Deri <d...@chuzzlewit.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > I have been working on an extension to gropdf to draw boxes underneath the > usual output from groff. The idea is to make it easier to include coloured > frames around groff content, without having to use keeps, particularly if you > want the frame to extend over several pages. It can also add a backgtound > colour to the "paper” gropdf uses.
Looks very interesting, > Included is my first attempt at an extension to the ms macros to make it easy > to include coloured frames. I have not used ms very much, nor written macros > so I'd be very grateful if people more expert than me could improve it, > particularly in regard to proper integration with the ms macros. I can't help much on that; I'm not even a regular ms user as I've switched to mom. By the way, perhaps Peter would be interested to write a mom extension to use your colored boxes? > The attached archive contains the new version of gropdf. Also it includes the > macro extension file sboxes.tmac which can be used with "-ms -msboxes", and > an > example of using the extension called msboxes.ms. > > Please feel free to do whatever to improve it. I've integrated your work on a dev branch 'dev-gropdf-boxes' and pushed it, so that people can use it right away and easily suggest some modifications. I put everything under a new directory 'contrib/sboxes'. You example is generated in build/contrib/sboxes/msboxes.pdf, and the new .tmac is installed with other .tmac files in the normal tmac dir. Regards, Bertrand Garrigues
