> On the other hand, I already have a macro package which I use to
> maintain more than one document. Naturally, I want to keep it in
> the tmac directory and call via the -m option, which I can't because
> it has to be preprocessed with gpreconv on account of its containing
> bits of Russian text...
Compare this to the doc package: Before installation to the tmac
directory, (almost) all names have the prefix `doc-' which gets
stripped, together with all leading whitespace. Using a Makefile for
doing `make install', it is really trivial to preprocess the macro
file with preconv before installing it.
> 1. Maybe a convention similar to that used for man pages -- list
> required preprocessors on the first line of the source in a
> comment -- would be better? Of course, the source encoding
> will also have to be specified for gpreconv.
Honestly, I don't see a need for that. In particular, it will cause
problems with older versions of groff.
> 2. Have an option to process all files: input, included via .so
> and .mso, and called via -m with all the preprocessors
> specified on command line. This would be a working, although
> dirty, solution.
I'm not convinced that this is really useful.
Werner
