Re: [Groff] pound sign and mom letters

[MJ Ray]

On 2004-02-20 16:28:28 +0000 Peter Schaffter <address@hidden> wrote:

> IOW, mom doesn't currently provide a better solution to your
> problem.

OK.

> The order and placement of mom's letter headers follow a fairly
> common convention for business correspondence (at least, common
> in this neck of the woods), namely: date, top-right; addressee,
> flush left; addresser, flush left.  For the moment, that's carved in
> stone.

That's different positioning and totally the opposite order to 
England: sender address top-right, then addressee flush left, then 
date flush right. Otherwise, it looks rather like you've just opened a 
letter from yourself and the addressee never lines up with window 
envelopes. If it's on letterhead, the addresser block is missed out.

>     a) the freedom to input the various header fields in any order
>        you like, and have mom output them in the same order
>     b) the ability to override the default quad direction of any of
>        those fields

That would cover it, but .rj and .nf can do it anyway, so is it worth 
fixing? I wonder what other regions do...

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