Re: [Groff] Copying blocks of troff input to a file

[Alejandro Lopez-Valencia]

On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 10:23:30 -0000 (GMT),  wrote in message  
<address@hidden>:

> Greetings all, and a happy festive season and new year to all!
>
> A question. I'm trying to devise a pair of macros (say .TO and .TQ)
> such that
>
> .TO
> one or more lines of troff input
> .TQ
>
> would
>
> a) append these input lines verbatim to another file
> b) leave them stilll available as troff input
>
> The objective is to set up a separate file which is already suitable
> for groff to generate a Table of Contents for the document in the
> original input (which will in fact be split between several input
> files).

This is probably not what you want, but have you looked at the TOC and  
indexing macros in gmm and the matching perl in mmroff?

Alejo
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