Re: [Groff] sidebars

2016-04-19 Thread Peter Schaffter
James -- On Tue, Apr 19, 2016, James K. Lowden wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 15:57:11 -0400 > Peter Schaffter wrote: > > If you're more comfortable with ms than mom, you can source Werner's > > originals. > > Which would be where? I didn't find them in contrib. mn.tmac didn't go into the re

Re: [Groff] sidebars

2016-04-19 Thread James K. Lowden
On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 15:57:11 -0400 Peter Schaffter wrote: > > Check out MOM's "Margin Notes". I've never had need of them, but > > they sound like just what you want. Thank you, both. The project I have in mind is big enough to justify learning MOM. > If you're more comfortable with ms than

Re: [Groff] sidebars

2016-04-18 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016, Dale Snell wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:46:05 -0400, in message > 20160418144605.a5bbde8b82c39ab43e361...@schemamania.org, James K. > Lowden wrote: > > > While I'm in the groff neighborhood, I'd like to ask for advice for a > > style of layout I don't see any direct suppor

Re: [Groff] sidebars

2016-04-18 Thread Denis M. Wilson
I have a set of macros for doing what I think you mean. I enclose a sample (with permission) of some pages of a newsletter I was once involved with. Is this of interest? Denis On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:46:05 -0400 "James K. Lowden" wrote: > While I'm in the groff neighborhood, I'd like to ask for

Re: [Groff] sidebars

2016-04-18 Thread Dale Snell
On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:46:05 -0400, in message 20160418144605.a5bbde8b82c39ab43e361...@schemamania.org, James K. Lowden wrote: > While I'm in the groff neighborhood, I'd like to ask for advice for a > style of layout I don't see any direct support for. > > Readers of this list might have read T

[Groff] sidebars

2016-04-18 Thread James K. Lowden
While I'm in the groff neighborhood, I'd like to ask for advice for a style of layout I don't see any direct support for. Readers of this list might have read The Annotated Alice. The text of Alice in Wonderland is full size, and the outer edges of the page have copious side-notes whose vertica