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Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros
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Ingo Schwarze |
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Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros |
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Mon, 20 Aug 2018 23:44:00 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23) |
Hi Tadziu,
Tadziu Hoffmann wrote on Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 11:22:44PM +0200:
> Peter Schaffter wrote:
>> A macro package does not hide the controls any more than writing
>> macros yourself does. A macro package aggregates the requests
>> needed to perform typesetting functions for convenience, not
>> opacity.
> Well said. I would like to add that I sometimes get the
> impression that people think that once they use a macro
> package, raw formatter requests should not be used anymore,
> as they somehow taint the "purity" of the manuscript.
> (This idea also appears to exist among some LaTeX users.)
>
> But this is of course nonsense.
Indeed. That only applies to some special areas like manual pages,
where you want consistency across a wide range of authors, document
maintainers (many of whom are inexperienced with typesetting),
operating systems, and formatting tools.
> The purpose of macro packages
> is not to *limit* what you are *allowed* to do, but to *help*
> you in what you *want* to do. And we should keep in mind
> that one of the core uses of macros is not to save a few
> keystrokes in marking up the manuscript (although it helps),
> but to maintain *consistency* across the entire document.
Right. When you write a book, consistency with a book written by
someone else on the other side of the globe is of relatively little
concern. As opposed to the case of manual pages.
Yours,
Ingo
- [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros, Yves Cloutier, 2018/08/10
- Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros, Ingo Schwarze, 2018/08/10
- Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros, Peter Schaffter, 2018/08/10
- Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/08/11
- Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros, Yves Cloutier, 2018/08/11
- Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros, Ingo Schwarze, 2018/08/11
- Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros, Holger Herrlich, 2018/08/16
- Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros, Holger Herrlich, 2018/08/20
- Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros, Peter Schaffter, 2018/08/20
- Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros, Tadziu Hoffmann, 2018/08/20
- Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros,
Ingo Schwarze <=
- Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros, Jeff Conrad, 2018/08/20
- Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros, Holger Herrlich, 2018/08/21
- Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros, Tadziu Hoffmann, 2018/08/21
- Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros, Pierre-Jean Fichet, 2018/08/22
- Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros, Peter Schaffter, 2018/08/22
- Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros, Holger Herrlich, 2018/08/21
- Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros, Peter Schaffter, 2018/08/22
- Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros, Holger Herrlich, 2018/08/26
- Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros, Yves Cloutier, 2018/08/11
- Re: [groff] Creating a numbered list without macros, Peter Schaffter, 2018/08/11