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Re: [Groff] fontselection


From: Sigfrid Lundberg, NetLab
Subject: Re: [Groff] fontselection
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 10:29:42 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Erich Hoffmann wrote:

...

> >some text \f(CRmore text\fP original font.
>
> This is convincing, you are using the different syntax [\f(xx vs. \fN]
> to get a sort of start- and end-tag which in combination with syntax
> highlighting facilitates reading the source code.  (I'm using VIM.)

To use the \f[...] escapes has distinct advantages when using scripting to
translate for SGML/XML. It suits the begin tag/end tag philosophy... Also,
it can be hard to convince XSLT to begin macros and requests at the
beginning of lines.

Sigge




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