At 2024-03-08T10:34:39-0600, Dave Kemper wrote: > On 3/8/24, ropers <rop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The thing I've given up on was figuring out how to preview my > > edits to groff.texi > > This took me a while to figure out at first too, and the procedure > gained an extra step since that time (when groff.texi was converted to > groff.texi.in to require preprocessing) so it's harder to figure out > today: a simple "makeinfo" on the .in file returns errors, and the > novice won't know whether that's his fault or the file's. Anyway, > here's what I currently use as a quick-n-dirty previewer: > > sed s/@VERSION@/VERSION/ groff.texi.in | makeinfo --plaintext | less > > This loses all the info-ey aspects of it (to me, a plus), but shows > you all the text in a formatted state.
Sorry for the recent extra complication; it didn't occur to me that people wouldn't just have make(1) generate the real thing. $ make -C build doc/groff.txt make: Entering directory '.../groff/build' GEN doc/groff.txt make: Leaving directory '.../groff/build' $ less build/doc/groff.txt Regards, Branden
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