RE: [Groff] The quest for a high-end typesetting system: A few questions

2005-03-10 Thread Mats Broberg
Werner Lemberg wrote: > > 8: I found a discussion about making the linebreaking algorithm > > paragraph-based (as in TeX)? Can this be done or has it been done > > already? > > It hasn't been done. The lack of elastic horizontal and > vertical space together with missing paragraph formatting

Re: [Groff] The quest for a high-end typesetting system: A few questions

2005-03-09 Thread Werner LEMBERG
A preliminary remark: Some of the features you are asking for are possible but haven't been implemented in the macro packages. > 1: Regarding color, is it possible to specify color for, say, drop > caps, paragraphs, lines etc, in the CMYK color system? Yes. > 2: Being a non-programmer, font ins

Re: [Groff] The quest for a high-end typesetting system: A few questions

2005-03-09 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005, Mats Broberg wrote: > Anyway, I have browsed the groff archives, but have a few additional > questions. Forgive if the answers to some of them are in the manuals, > which I indeed have browsed too but not read every word of. Yours are well thought-out questions. I believe th

[Groff] The quest for a high-end typesetting system: A few questions

2005-03-09 Thread Mats Broberg
Dear listmembers, In my quest for a high-end typesetting system for my publication projects, I have now come to groff. Seeing that my publications may include alot of footnotes, margin notes, crossreferences, running headers & footers etc, I have more or less ruled out software like QuarkXPress, I