Re: [Groff] Markdown to MOM Using Pandoc

[Peter Schaffter]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014, Yves Cloutier wrote:
> Note that what I am generating are elements as defined by Peter's MOM
> Macros - not pure troff/groff.
> 
> So in a sense, the "second pass", as you describe (and if I understood it
> correctly) is automated by the Markdown->MOM writer script.
> 
> You write plain text, in Markdown, using very minimal tags, which then get
> replaced by the corresponding MOM macros in the resulting document that it
> produced.

I think Yves is going at this the right way.  KISS: choose a
macroset (doesn't have to be mom), make markdown parsable into that
macroset, and steer clear of low-level groff requests and escapes.
Markdown is intended to make sense of a file semantically, not
typographically.  If you start throwing a lot of bells and whistles
at it, you lose the point, which is to keep writing content simple.

Myself, I use sed scripts to accomplish exactly what Yves is
envisaging.  No low-level groff stuff gets added other than
pre-pending \& to lines that start with a period or the ' character.
My workflow is "write, convert, tweak", and it's both efficient
and enjoyable.  

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Peter Schaffter
http://www.schaffter.ca