On Wed, May 04, 2005, joerg van den hoff wrote: > hi all, > > is there a way to reset refer settings somewhere 'downstream' if the > 'upstream' defaults are no good? > > specifically: > > in my document I source a certain defaults file in which, upon different > other settings, one finds: > > ... > .R1 > database the_standard_database > .R2 > ... > > now, I want to set in the _current_ document > > ... > .R1 > database a_different_database > .R2 > ... > > which by itself of course _appends_ the new database to the set of > databases searched (and is searched latest). > > can I enforce solely searching of the new database without eliminating > the first one from the defaults file (which would be bad for other > documents...)? i.e. is there a way to clear the variable holding the > database string (well, what is it's name? :-) )
.R1 no-default-database database a_different_database .R2 instructs refer not to search the default database. If later you need to have refer include the default database again: .R1 default-database <filename> .R2 I think that should work. -- Peter Schaffter Author of _The Schumann Proof_ (RendezVous Press, Canada) http://faustus.dyn.ca _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
