Re: [Groff] Uncluttering the tmac directory

[Werner LEMBERG]

> >For the tmac/ directory restructuring, the recursive feature is not
> >needed.  It seems to be possible to implement the internal
> >subdirectories by adding the subdirectory name to the .mso requests
> >in the calling macro files and adjusting some path names in some C
> >source files.
> 
> But the recursive feature can be helpful to organize site-tmac.

Exactly.  For example, let's assume that a user wants to customize
usr/local/share/groff/1.18/tmac/foo/bar/foobar.tmac.  To do this
properly, he has to create

  /usr/local/share/groff/site-tmac/foo/bar/foobar.tmac

instead of

  /usr/local/share/groff/site-tmac/foobar.tmac

Additionally, the calling code with a subdir searching would be a
simple

  .mso foobar.tmac

instead of

  .mso foo/bar/foobar.tmac



     Werner