Re: [Groff] Typesetting Software

[Clarke Echols]

Sounds like the author needs training in usability.

Sections can be emphasized without headings markup.

I've been writing professionally for 30 years, and
it amazes me what some "writers" who claim to be pro's
actually produce. :-(

Does she understand what her readers are looking for?
In other words, is she saying what she wants to say, or
writing to actually help the reader?

Clarke

Steve Izma wrote:

> I'm familiar with your pdfroff and I think it's extremely
> interesting, so I definitely didn't mean to trivialize that.
> Pdfroff is going to become more and more important because of the
> need for publishers to produce sophisticated PDFs with lots of
> cross references and internal links for on-line reading and
> e-book readers. We've got a series of books that I want to
> enhance with pdfroff, but I've gotten stymied by the fact that
> the author insists on unstructured subheadings. Instead of a
> normal hierarchy (e.g., h1 h2 h2 h1 h2 h3 h3 h1, etc.) she
> insists on sticking in subheads wherever she feels like giving
> more emphasis to a section. It makes the table of contents look
> very messy as well. Sometime soon I will look more closely at
> pdfroff to try and work around this.
>
>         -- Steve