Re: [Groff] groff_ms.man

[Werner LEMBERG]

I'm CCing the texinfo people, since I think that this might be of
general interest.

Larry Kollar <address@hidden> wrote about the look of texinfo
manuals:

> [...] -- user guides (these days) don't look anything like a Texinfo
> manual.  (Note that I am talking about look & feel rather than
> content here, and yes I too would prefer content to pretty layout.
> But as a tech writer, I want both.)
>
> Any manual larger than a pocket reference has body text indented
> relative to its headings.  This may not be typographically correct,
> but it allows a reader to scan the headings to quickly find the
> desired information -- assuming the content is well-written, which
> it isn't in far too many cases.  Headings are usually in a different
> font from the body text, which koma-script does too.  Tables get
> used a lot.  Manuals often have a lot more white space on the page
> than they used to.  All these things make a manual easier to read
> and comprehend.  Even back in 1984, I wrote a macro package that was
> primitive in a lot of ways (I used nroff to a NEC Spinwriter) but
> even then it indented body text.

I would like to have a command like

  @texinfostyle foo

to override texinfo.tex's layout (probably even influencing the
text-only stuff intended for info).  Is there something in texinfo's
TODO queue?


    Werner