Re: Proper usage of .rd? Tutorial or Example?

[onf]

Hi Robert,

you forgot to Cc the list. I hope you won't mind if I do.

On Wed Dec 4, 2024 at 12:13 AM CET, Robert Thorsby wrote:
> Thanks for responding.
>
> On 4/12/24 09:48, onf wrote:
> > There are things that Heirloom troff can do that groff can't;
> > check the attached file. It also wouldn't surprise me at all
> > if there were things that TeX can do that no troff can, and
> > likewise for the paid typesetting programs like Adobe InDesign.
>
> The only thing in that file that groff can't do (and which is 
> universally acknowledged) is paragraph formatting. The other stuff it can.
>
> Of course, some of it has to be done by trickery, For example, creating 
> a donut is done by incorporating pure postscript into the input file.
>
> Also, don't forget that most of John Warnock's DTP ideas were taken from 
> open source and free (in the Stallman use of that term) programs. 
> FrameMaker is one such that comes to mind. Groff is another.
>
> I suspect that taking one groff request and basing an entire argument on 
> it might be counter-productive. :-) I think the author of the rd request 
> may have been scratching an itch.
>
> Cheers,
> Robert

I would argue that if a feature necessitates the embedding of
PostScript instructions, it's not a feature that groff supports.

~ onf