Re: A weird problem with mm title page macros

[G. Branden Robinson]

Hi Oliver,

At 2023-11-21T22:58:45+0100, Oliver Corff via wrote:
> I get *your* point, but I was lured to believe that I could write my
> own Memorandum Type by copying an existing one in the ../tmac/mm/
> directory and assigning an appropriate number. I thought "types 0 to 5
> are supported" can be interpreted as "a file for these types is
> provided", which in reality is not true because only types 0, 4 and 5
> are in that directory. Hence I thought it safe to create a type 3 (or
> 6 since this was nowhere to be seen).

I can see how you were lured in that direction.  I'm not sure I would
want to be in the position of defending this aspect of groff mm's
design.

> PS: I find it facinating to see how much our interpretations of the
> same text fragments occasionally differ from each other, based on our
> totally different backgrounds. You as the total insider, me, by all
> fair standards, as one who is not a newcomer any more, but also not
> really mature with the matter yet is accustomed to very textual (in
> the sense of textualism) interpretations of text.

I think there are multiple kinds of insider.  Jörgen Hägg would be the
true insider for groff mm.  I'm more like Howard Carter coming across
the sealed tomb of groff mm, untouched for many years, with some tools
and a little training but no real insight into the mind of the
architect.

(One might also argue that, like any Edwardian-era explorer, immediately
upon encountering an artifact, I started contaminating it.[1])

Regards,
Branden

[1] If Ralph Corderoy isn't going to hang around to venture derogatory
    opinions of my work, _someone_ has to... ;-)

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