Hi Oliver, At 2023-11-21T18:56:51+0100, Oliver Corff wrote: > the first steps with mm look quite promising, and the (optional) goal > of approaching the typesetting appearance of the original in the > translation (for the benefit of the reader who wants to consult the > original) is definitely achievable. > > Two small hurdles remain: > > 1. In mm, I did not find a macro for putting a journal title. Not a > big problem, the journal title can appear in the running page header.
I don't think mm, or any *roff macro package for that matter (except may
be mom(7), of which I know little), keeps track of datum as
particular as a "journal title". (refer(1) does, but that's a different
tool.)
I would define a string if you expect to make multiple references to the
journal title, and or configure the page headers/footers appropriately,
with `PH`, `PF`, or their recto/verso-aware alternatives.
> 2. Author affiliations of multiple authors. In the original document I
> have a centered line
>
> Author I¹ Author II¹ Author-III² Author-IV¹ Author-V³
>
> followed by
>
> (1. Institution 1; 2. Institution 2; 3. Institution 3)
>
> The mm macros provide .AF (author's firm), but in my document that
> never produces any output. Am I again missing the obvious here?
I don't think so; only some document types do anything with the author
firm datum.
Checking the DWB 3.3 mm manual, `AF` is scantily documented.
This manual also expands "AF" as "Alternate First-Page Format". Here's
what it says.
--snip--
§6.1.7.2 Alternate First-Page Format. One can specify an alternate
format for the first page of memoranda and change the company name used
for any document style.
.AF [company-name]
If an argument is given, company-name replaces the default company name
on the first page of a released paper and in the letterhead block of a
memoranda [sic]. If the argument is null, the company name is
suppressed; in this case, an extra blank line is inserted to allow room
for stamping the document with an appropriate name or signature element.
--end snip--
Our mm describes it a bit differently.
groff_mm(7):
AF [firm‐name]
Specify firm associated with the document. At most one can
be declared; the firm name is used by memorandum types and
available to cover sheets. AF terminates a document title
started with TL, and can be called without an argument for
that purpose. See MT and COVER.
It looks like only `AF` is used per document; this is a notable
difference from ms(7)'s `AI` macro.
The code for groff mm's `AF` is pretty simple.
.de AF
.cov@title-end
.if !''\\$1' .ds cov*firm \\$1
..
I therefore think you will need to handle author institutional
affiliations with bespoke logic in your document.
Regards,
Branden
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