I’m a little late to the party, but I’ve read Alex’s original post over several times, and I have to wonder if everyone is over-thinking this.
> On Feb 16, 2024, at 10:21 AM, Alejandro Colomar <a...@kernel.org> wrote: > > Hi Branden! > > I've been thinking about a suggestion I've done in the past. I wanted a > program that reads man(7) source and produces roff(7) source, so that it > can later be passed to troff(1), thus splitting the groff(1) pipeline a > bit more. The idea is similar to how eqn(1) and other pre-troff filters > do their job. There has to be a phase during which (g)troff interprets the macros and produces roff(7) to feed to the main processor. Would it be possible to add a new command line option (like —roff) that simply dumps the input with macros applied, then stops? — Larry
