At 2022-03-25T18:03:29+0100, Chems Eddine Naimi wrote: > I'm pretty new to groff, and I've been playing with the tmac > files, writing my own macros and all. Now I'm trying to implement > internal links in dvi documents.
Hi Chems, I didn't even know the DVI format supported hyperlinks, but I guess it does.[1] It sounds like they're supported by "hyperlink-html specials", which I'm going to guess is in the same broad class of extensions as "tpic specials". > When reading the s.tmac file, specifically the description for the > .[ macro, it mentions a macro called .#, but I can't find its > definition anywhere. I get the feeling you are not reading groff's s.tmac file. groff does not define a macro by that name, and in fact would not because such a sequence would get replaced by the refer(1) preprocessor. Similarly, groff's s.tmac does not define a macro called '#'. (I assume you're using the dots to indicate the call syntax; in any case, it doesn't define a macro called '.#' either.) In fact this symbol is almost unused in groff's ms implementation. $ grep '#' tmac/refer-ms.tmac tmac/s.tmac tmac/s.tmac:.mk #T tmac/s.tmac:. T# tmac/s.tmac:. T# >I tried greping the whole directory but to no > avail. Here's the passage I'm talking about : > .\" Examples: > .\" .[ eBay ]( https://ebay.com ) > .\" .[ Contact ]< cont...@author.com > > .\" .[ Term ][ term-id ] *\" See .#* > External links to sites and e-mails work fine, but I can't find a way > to declare any term-id for use in internal links. This doesn't look like idiomatic ms(7) macro package usage at all. Whatever it is you have here, I don't think it has much to do with groff. Can you share a link to the source of the material you're quoting? Regards, Branden [1] https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/314041/hyperlinks-in-plain-tex
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