Re: [Groff] UTP style?

[Jon Snader]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 11:41:06PM -0700, Meg McRoberts wrote:
> Do we have some sort of a "Style Guide" for the UTP?  If not, I'm
> going to scratch up a rough one to use for a consistency edit.
> Nothing fancy, just to specify fonts, indents, and so forth.
> 

Nothing exists now.  I quick and dirty style guide might be a help to
the people doing the markup.

> I know we said we were going to stick as closely as possible to the
> style of the published book, but this style of having the first paragraph
> in a section not indented and then subsequent paragraphs indented with no
> space between paragraphs is really annoying me.  Is anyone else bothered
> by it?

This is standard practice as far as I know.  I always typeset my stuff that
way, as did Rich Stevens and does Don Knuth.  The LaTex macros do this by
default.

>Yes, I can learn to live with it but I thought I'd ask... It looks
> to me like the utp macros are actually putting a bit of a space between
> paragraphs which is not in the original book but I like it.  I think the
> pages would be easier to read if we dropped the paragraph indentation, too.
> 

I like the extra space between paragraphs too.  Many (most? all?) publishers
like 0 space, presumably because it saves space and keeps production costs
down.  If you want to see what it looks like with no space, try setting
PD to 0.  If people want, we can set PD to 0 in .utp.

Jon Snader