Re: Proof Of Concept, Flowing Text Around Left-Aligned Image

[Robert Thorsby]

On 22/12/23 04:25, Deri wrote:
> The example pdfs in the "doc" section of the groff release are good examples
> of what can be achieved with groff. Particularly Peter's mom examples which
> come with the source code as well.

They are excellent documents, and if I had been starting out in groff a 
decade ago I would be using the mom macro set as a matter of course.

I was trying to show what could be done without using macros (albeit a 
pretty rough and ready example that could easily be improved). Most 
newcomers are so overwhelmed by the sheer complexity of groff that they 
either try to use the "wrong" macros or they assume that what they want 
can't be done.

There has been a call for a repository of documents that show how to do 
a things. I think this call has arisen because most people cannot cope 
with being given a 300 page manual in answer to "[How do|Can] I do X?".

That is why I attached a formatted PDF file that showed the result in 
what I hoped was a "real world example" of a single topic and showed how 
I did it (which was actually the source code). I should have spent more 
time on the explanation.

Robert
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