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Re: [Groff] poll: which macro packages are in common use / and why.
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Jon Snader |
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Re: [Groff] poll: which macro packages are in common use / and why. |
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Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:55:27 -0400 |
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:12:10AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > The reason we use these is they automatically produce a very nice cover
> > sheet which readers of our reports appreciate (example at:
> >
> > http://www.smtl.co.uk/~pete/troff/pete-mm-cover-sheet.pdf
> >
> > For the rest, we usually use the groff_mm macros (I'm sure we could
> > probably rig up a cover sheet like the one above if one of us had enough
> > gtroff expertise, then we could move to that entirely).
>
> I don't think this is that hard, is the problem you don't have the
> knowledge to position all that stuff? It seems to me that you want a
> template with all the stuff that you fill in as defined strings, you
> modify those strings and you have your cover sheet, right? We do
> our commercial invoices like that.
Take a look at the Tech. Memo Cover Sheet macro (TR, I think)
from the original AT&T ms macros. They do exactly this--in fact
that cover sheet is very similar to the one the original poster
pointed to.
jcs
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