Re: [Groff] Re: Why is it

[Keith Marshall]

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 12:41 -0500, Michael Kerpan wrote:
> > The current version of POSIX (due to be published next year) is
> > almost 4,000 pages of hyperlinked PDF (thanks to Keith Marshall's
> > pdfmark macros) in a supserset of the mm macros (with a good amount
> > of tbl and eqn preprocessor). And if we had to start over again,
> > though there are a few TeX proponents around the committees, I am
> > certain we would use groff again ....
> 
> Wow. Is there any chance that this superset of -mm can/will be made
> generally available? I'm currently an -me fan, but a macro set capable
> of providing useful formatting for a 4000 page document is something
> quite cool.

Nick has adapted mm for use with my pdfmark macro set; I myself use a
minimally extended ms set, spdf.tmac, which is already provided with
versions of groff recent enough to include pdfmark.tmac; it should not
be difficult to similarly extend me, and maybe mom and man.

I've also provided a front end, pdfroff, to facilitate the use of
pdfmark.tmac, driving groff and ghostscript to directly generate PDF;
it is agnostic to the user's choice of macro packages, although its
features are primarily designed to work with pdfmark.tmac.

Regards,
Keith.