Hi Larry, > I often include a comment near the top of any *roff file with the > expected command line options, for when I haven't touched it in a week > or more and forgot what I used.
I do similar, starting the file .\" f=foo.inv && ./fmtitem $f.tr | groff -t | ps2pdf - $f.pdf .\" exit . and then doing sed s/...// foo.inv.tr | sh to run it. If things get more complex, then there's normally a makefile that knows the dependencies. Cheers, Ralph.