On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 5:24 PM G. Branden Robinson
wrote:
> My view is expressed in groff(1):
...
>An even easier way to do this is to use grog(1) to guess the
>preprocessor and macro options and execute the result by using
>the command substitution feature of the shell.
I've only half paid attention to this thread so if this has been mentioned,
sorry. I vaguely remember something like this:
.\" $ROFF -s -t $FILES
Near the top of the file and then there was a roff script that grepped out
that line, set ROFF to groff, FILE to $* and execed that sequence.
It's
Dear Branden, Dave, Lennart and Peter (in alphabetical order),
thank you for your various replies and suggestions.
With regard to hidden caveats in my naive one-for-all attempt, I ignored
the potential consequences of the -s option. Thank you for pointing out
that.
So, next to introducing an
Hi Lennart,
I constantly ignore this trap due to my less-than-frequent postings.
Thank you for pointing out this one.
Best,
Oliver.
On 22/03/2024 22:26, Lennart Jablonka wrote:
Quoth Oliver Corff via:
Reply-to: Oliver Corff
This might not be the greatest of ideas. An MUA might just
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
Hi Oliver,
At 2024-03-22T21:01:27+0100, Oliver Corff via wrote:
> 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
I don't have any complaint with your proposal, but it sounds like what
you need is a makefile or script to insure groff runs are done the
same way every time. More simplistically, you can define a shell
alias to invoke all preprocessors: "alias groff='groff -k -e -p -t
-R'". (Or name the alias
On Fri, Mar 22, 2024, 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
Quoth Oliver Corff via:
Reply-to: Oliver Corff
This might not be the greatest of ideas. An MUA might just decide
to reply to you only, instead of to you and the list.
Dear All,
recently I compiled, and re-compiled, and again recompiled a set of
various documents with different tables,
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
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