Hi Ulrich,
> The way I handle preprocessors and other options, is, to put them into
> a (pseudo-) comment in the first line of a document, like e.g.:
>
> .\" tbl eqn lnd
I do something similar but put shell commands as a comment, e.g.
.\" set -eEu -o pipefail
.\" f=foo
.\" o='-p -t
> Von: "Ulrich Lauther"
>
> The way I handle preprocessors and other options, is, to put them into a
> (pseudo-) comment
> in the first line of a document, like e.g.:
>
> .\" tbl eqn lnd
>
> This line is interpreted by my groff shell script and I can never forget to
> run the required
> prep
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:24:46PM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Bernd,
>
> > A `groff' option for running the `gideal' preprocessor is needed.
>
> Only once the preprocessor has a significant enough audience to make it
> worthwhile? Meanwhile, it can continue to be explicitly pipelined?
>
> Von: "Werner LEMBERG"
>
> > A `groff' option for running the `gideal' preprocessor is needed. I
> > propose upper case `-J', because the lower case `-j' was used for
> > `chem'.
>
> This is OK with me.
Then I will install `-J' for `gideal'; `-j' for `chem' is already done.
But I propose to
> Should we be worried about having too few characters left though?
> Do we need to work on a solution?
No need to worry – we can always use long option if really, really
necessary (what I doubt, to be honest).
Werner
Should we be worried about having too few characters left though? Do we
need to work on a solution?
- Vaibhaw
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> >> A `groff' option for running the `gideal' preprocessor is needed.
> >
> > Only once the preprocessor has a significant enoug
>> A `groff' option for running the `gideal' preprocessor is needed.
>
> Only once the preprocessor has a significant enough audience to make
> it worthwhile? Meanwhile, it can continue to be explicitly
> pipelined?
Given that `ideal' is a traditional preprocessor, I think it is a good
thing to
> A `groff' option for running the `gideal' preprocessor is needed. I
> propose upper case `-J', because the lower case `-j' was used for
> `chem'.
This is OK with me.
Werner
Hi Bernd,
> A `groff' option for running the `gideal' preprocessor is needed.
Only once the preprocessor has a significant enough audience to make it
worthwhile? Meanwhile, it can continue to be explicitly pipelined?
> Free characters from there are: [ABHJOuxyY]
Too few to dedicate remaining o
A `groff' option for running the `gideal' preprocessor is needed.
I propose upper case `-J', because the lower case `-j' was used
for `chem'.
Other characters are also possible from the shell command
$ groff -h | grep '^-' | sort | less
Free characters from there are: [ABHJOuxyY]
`ideal' is almo
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