Re: Re: [Groff] soelim and file names defined in string registers

2006-08-22 Thread M Bianchi
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 02:42:47PM +0100, Keith MARSHALL wrote: > Mike Bianchi wrote: > >>> (it just would be nice if the `.so' request _could_ interpolate the > >>> string register value) > >> > >> Indeed, but I don't see how to do that properly. > > > > Maybe soelim(1) could recognize that the ar

Re: Re: [Groff] soelim and file names defined in string registers

2006-08-22 Thread Keith MARSHALL
Mike Bianchi wrote: >>> (it just would be nice if the `.so' request _could_ interpolate the >>> string register value) >> >> Indeed, but I don't see how to do that properly. > > Maybe soelim(1) could recognize that the argument is not a file name > ( \ being a dead giveaway ) and simply leave the r

Re: Re: [Groff] soelim and file names defined in string registers

2006-08-22 Thread M Bianchi
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 07:30:54AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > (it just would be nice if the `.so' request _could_ interpolate the > > string register value) > > Indeed, but I don't see how to do that properly. Maybe soelim(1) could recognize that the argument is not a file name ( \ being a

Re: [Groff] soelim and file names defined in string registers

2006-08-22 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> > (it just would be nice if the `.so' request _could_ > > interpolate the string register value) > > Indeed, but I don't see how to do that properly. It *does* interpolate the string register value, but only at *troff* runtime. (Well, actually it's not the ".so" request that does the interpol