I solved this problem for me by having a pseudo comment in the first line of my
documents
which indicates how this individual document is to be handled.
In my bash-script, that eventally calls groff with appropriate options and
preprocessors I have
FILE="$1"
# check for .\" eqn tbl add lnd eng mom
for i in `read x < $1; echo $x`
do
case $i in
eqn) OPTS="$OPTS -e" ;;
lnd) FORM=lnd ;;
tbl) OPTS="$OPTS -t"
PIPE="$PIPE | squezetbl "
;;
add) PIPE="$PIPE | addtbl.pl " ;;
eng) longdash="\40-\40 \\\\(em" ;;
mom) MAC=mom ;;
*) :
esac
done
Best,
ulrich
On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 09:01:27PM +0100, Oliver Corff via wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> recently I compiled, and re-compiled, and again recompiled a set of
> various documents with different tables, equations etc.. For each of the
> documents, the precise requirements of preprocessors were different, and
> more often than not, I forgot to set the appropriate groff option when
> running the compilation to the effect that I had to redo my edit - check
> cycle. Since there is no groffer script anymore, may I humbly propose a
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