Better than Office, easier than LaTex

This is my attempt to learn the red programming language by implementing a document typesetter.

Ellipses is an attempt to create an easy to use typesetting solution which can be used both for general purpose and professional typesetting needs.

It is essentially a "code generator", generating an input file for groff. It uses mom macros to create a layer of abstraction over groff's low-level commands.

• typography.red does all the work.
• styles.red is where you set the various document styling options.
• secret-buddhism.red is a book. It's pretty self-explanatory. Calling red secret-buddhism.red will generate a file secret-buddhism.mom then generates a PDF by calling pdfmom to process the .mom file using groff and turn it into a PDF.

• groff
• Peter Schaffter's mom macros.

I'm still in very early stages of development and experimentation so use at your own risk. Proper documentation on how to use and extend ellipses will be created using ellipses itself once things are a little less in a state of flux.