Hi Dan,
> My motivation is not to fine-hone groff documents, but to quickly
> format quickly written messages (mostly emails). So any markup
> charcter I've got to write is one too many, and to that end, with
> respect to numbered nested lists, mm is a bit less verbose than ms.
One of the ways of widening the view of troff (and groff) would be if
there were more troff back-ends to things that already have PostScript,
TeX, LaTeX, ASCII, etc., back-ends. For example, reStructuredText is a
way of writing simple documents with ASCII mark-up. A `troff -ms'
back-end wouldn't be too hard to add I'd guess.
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickstart.html
Cheers,
Ralph.
