On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 10:22:12AM +0100, Dan H wrote: > Hello all, > > As my job frequently requires me to write highly structured, > long emails, I???ve discovered groff to be the perfect tool for > me. This email is an example of how I use groff with the mm > package (because it is, as far as I know, the only one that > offers nested lists). However, there are a couple of things
I'm sure, `ms' provides everything you'd need as well. > that I???d like to do to make things perfect: > > 1. Turn off pagination. Like I said, it???s mostly for > email and therefore doesn???t require separate pages. I > don???t know how the man formatter does it. I'd set .pl 500c (assuming a 5 meter long page is enough :-) ) and chop off trailing empty lines in the end. actually, for similar purposes as you have in mind I simply use cat my_file | groff -Tlatin1 -ms | tr -s '\n' which simply squeezes consecutive blank lines to a single one (and thus takes care of trailing empty lines as well). > > 2. Foreign languages: How can I load different > hyphenation patterns, if they exist? > > 3. UTF???8 support: It seems that with "???T utf8", groff > spits out utf???8 but only accepts latin???1 as input. Is > there a way to make groff accept utf???8 as input as > well? Will there be support for utf???8 fonts in PS > output? > > 4. Left margin: How can it be turned off or made smaller? in `troff' with .po 0i in `ms' with .nr PO 0i in `mm' there should be something similar. hth joerg
