Welcome to the list,
On 22/7/24 04:33, me.gr...@mro.name wrote:
after years of doing my administrative letters with vim :hardcopy plus some
settings[1], I'd like to move on to groffing them with identical look and be
indepenent of the editor.
So, typewriter look, significant whitespace, page number/total heading.
Being new to groff and a bit lost in macro packages as well as the docs - how
would I do that, or where has such been documented before?
Using [g]roff to recreate a typewriter (which it will do superbly) is
using a sledgehammer to crack walnuts. Everybody who has been a member
of this list since last century has a letter writing program, written in
the individual's weapon of choice, to create "proper" business letters.
These business letters are objects of beauty -- they are typeset.
In my case, I use a shell script and no macro package at all.
Before members from your area reply with their genuine contributions I
suggest you look at Peter Schaffter's mom macro package. In a previous
life Peter was a typesetter and his continuously maintained, extensively
documented, macros set can handle business letters with ease.
But, please don't mention "typewriter" in your correspondence -- it will
be embarrassing for the rest of us to watch a grown man cry. :-)
Sometimes when I write a one-line business letter "In response to your
'Last Final Demand Before Court Action' of the 13th instant we advise
that the cheque is in the mail." and I find myself track-kerning I feel
that I may have become a little too fastidious.
Robert Thorsby
I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it.
-- Vincent van Gogh, letter to Anthon van Rappard 18 August 1885
