Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros

2018-08-14 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Ingo, > > He may not know himself at this be largely based on indentation, for > > example. > > That has been tried, with very poor results: > > https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20170304230520 No, Markdown is far more complex that what I was suggesting. The main content of a nove

Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros

2018-08-14 Thread Larry Kollar
> Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > We're not entirely sure what he wants. ... Perhaps troff syntax, even with > mainly light-noise macros, would be off-putting to his users and so he's > wanting a pre-processor that produces troff. The input language could > be largely based on indentation, for exa

Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros

2018-08-14 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Larry, > I’ve often wondered why one of the major macro packages doesn’t have > support to set .blm to its paragraph macro. And switch to/from the list-item macro within a list? New paragraphs within a list item could still be achieved. -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCordero