Re: mom macors with heirloom-doctools

[carsten.kunze%arcor.de@localhost]

Hi Gerard,

> Can Peter Schaffter's mom macros[1] for groff be used with heirloom
> troff? These macros turned groff into a much more user-friendly and
> powerful typesetting system. The advantage of heirloom troff is that it
> does paragraph-at-once formatting while groff is still restricted to
> line-at-once formatting. Being able to use the mom macros in heirloom
> troff would make for a powerful combination. A tiny memory footprint
> producing documents almost on a par with those output by the much
> bigger TeX (Thierry Laronde's KerTex excepted, of course!).

I found the mail thread [1] where Gunnar confirms that -mom works with
heirloom troff.  Or at least had worked.  Peter had updated the macros
to few new groff features which are not yet in heirloom.  But it seems to
be not too complicated to add them.  And Peter agrees to give support
for his macros for the integration if needed.

Currently there is much work to do on heirloom troff becase of
requests from FreeBSD developers, but when this is done I'm going to
test compatibility with the mom macros.

Carsten

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2008-01/msg00022.html