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

[Ted Harding]

Hi Ralph!

On 24-Dec-03 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Ted,
>> The last bit could be done by reading back from a diversion, but I'm
>> not seeing how to combine this with the first bit (indeed I'm not
>> seeing how to do the first bit anyway!)
> 
> Aren't you the one on this list that's meant to answer questions rather
> than ask them?  :-)

Touché! (but this doesn't mean I know all the answers, still less
that no-one else does). However ...

> I've no idea either but have you considered a
> little awk preprocessor that takes
> 
>     .TO
>     merry
>     christmas
>     .TQ
> 
> and generates
> 
>     merry
>     .TX merry
>     christmas
>     .TX christmas
> 
> where .TX is as you've already achieved.

... this is not what's wanted, since

a) I could have done this with
   .TX merry
   .TX christmas
(in your sense of .TX) anyway; but this would write

   .XA 1
   merry
   .XE
   .XA 1
   christmas
   .XE

i.e. two separate TOC entries.

b) What I want copied into the auxiliary file by .TO/.../.TQ is

   .XS 1
   merry
   christmas
   .XE

Cheers, and merry christmas (with lots of jolly wrappers)
Ted.


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