After extensively using mgp those last weeks I feel the following
weeknesses in the file-format:

* troff-like commands make the source hardly readable

* no font context makes it impossible to restore a font without
knowledge of the default style

* see some previously reported problems (leading %, etc.)

* etc.


I've started work on an SGML DTD and a sgml2mgp specfile for sgmlspm,
and currently write my slides in SGML.  That's work-in-progress, and
some problems mentionned above make it difficult to map proper
structural elements into valid .mgp source, but it basically works.

I can send you this DTD and specfile if you want them.

I'd suggest that mgp switches to a similar SGML- or XML-based format -
that would make it cleaner, and make it possible to use at low cost
already existing tools to ease composing - I currently use
emacs/psgml, but I guess Lyx could be used as well.

Dear Yann,
Your report is quit old and maintainers did not react on it. Time has
passed
and version at upstream increased.

Please check if the issue you describe is still relevant in the latest
version provided by Debian GNU/Linux.

Regards,
Christian Buhtz