Re: [Groff] mom: Some follow-up questions

[Robert Goulding]

On Mar 14, 2005, at 4:50 AM, Meg McRoberts wrote:

> > I've also found that the cross-ref macros in -mm are easily 
> > detachable.  I
> > posted a version adapted to -ms here some time back; you should be 
> > able to find
> > them with a little searching for my name in the archive!  They work 
> > fine; I
> > wrote an article using -ms and the adapted -mm macros, which used 
> > extensive
> > cross-references.
>
> Do any of these cross-referencing schemes generate cross-references in
> the HTML output as well as PDF?  And do they play out in some 
> reasonable
> way for text output?
No, they simply write out the section/page/footnote reference of a tag 
to an auxiliary file, which is read in on the second pass.  This allows 
one to do things like 'see n. 37 on p. 43 below', and so forth.  In one 
way, it would make sense to have a unified set of cross-reference 
macros which produce useful html, pdf and text output; on the other 
hand, the -mm crossref macros do everything you need for a written 
report or article.  They are every bit as powerful as LaTeX's native 
crossref macros (i.e., without the addition of packages like hyperref).

Robert.

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Robert Goulding
Program in History and Philosophy of Science
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame IN 46556