On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 09:47:46PM -0500, Richard Morse wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve done a bit more research, and it looks like > gropdf doesn’t implement the “\X” command according to the documentation, > which is the problem. > > I’m trying to keep things off the command line, because that makes the file > less self-contained (I would actually like to take the “-Tpdf” into the file > as well, to tell the truth). > As I reported earlier, I use the first line of a file to store hints about (pre)processng. Example: .\" mom tbl pdf and use a shell script to interpret this line and to control appropriate processing.
Best, ulrich