Tadziu Hoffmann: > Interesting that you mention this, because that's > exactly what I usually do (inspired by man, of > course). That is, I have a shell script "myroff" > [*] which reads the first line of the input file, > interprets it as options, and calls groff accord- > ingly (and also opens/refreshes the gv window with > the output). You could also use this shell script > as a replacement for the "driver" program groff > and build your own pipeline with it instead. > > (It goes without saying that such a script is of > course permanently under construction.) > [...]
Thanks for sharing your script, Tadziu! I hesitate to use more than trivial scripts for groff because I'd have to maintain them in two verstions: POSIX and MSDOS, but that might be a good reason for me to learn both. By the way, the principle of early processing stat- ing that any decision in a program should be made as soon as the relevant information becomes available seems to speak in favour of intalling pre-processed macro files... -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
