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Re: Introducing mu, my new macro package
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John Ankarström |
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Re: Introducing mu, my new macro package |
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Thu, 1 Jul 2021 21:44:13 +0200 |
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Den 2021-07-01 kl. 21:15 skrev Mike Bianchi:
> With just a quick glance, I like what you've done.
> I can see myself using it sometime soon.
>
> One suggestion, give the Inline, Environment and Other macros 2 or 3
> character names with a common theme so they stand separate from the groff
> commands and macros.
>
> [...]
>
> I have so many documents where _all_ the groff actions are in lower case
> and I don't know where to look when I need to understand the action and
> syntax. Is it native groff? Or the mm macro package? Or something I wrote?
>
> Now when writing my own macros I tend to make them start with a capital letter
> or be all capitals.
Thanks a lot! The neat thing about the one-letter lowercase macros,
though, is that all built-in troff macros are two letters (or more). So
if you see a one-letter macro, it's definitely a macro and not a
standard troff request.
- Introducing mu, my new macro package, John Ankarström, 2021/07/01
- Re: Introducing mu, my new macro package, Mike Bianchi, 2021/07/01
- Re: Introducing mu, my new macro package,
John Ankarström <=
- Re: Introducing mu, my new macro package, Oliver Corff, 2021/07/01
- Re: Introducing mu, my new macro package, address@hidden, 2021/07/01
- Re: Introducing mk [was: Introducing mu, my new macro package], John Ankarström, 2021/07/01
- Re: Introducing mu, my new macro package, Peter Schaffter, 2021/07/01