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

[Ted Harding]

On 24-Dec-03 Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> How about this:
> 
> ---- Cut here (with a very sharp editor) ----
> .de TO
> .de TX TQ
> ..
> .de TQ
> .opena TOCout TOC.tr
> .write TOCout .XA \\n%
> .writem TOCout TX
> .write TOCout .XE
> .close TOCout
> .TX
> ..
> This is a
> .TO
> Block of
> .I input
> lines
> .TQ
> ---- Cut here (with a very sharp editor) ----

Tadziu, this is very clever! My brain is still unwinding from
the recursive spin it has induced -- it had not occurred to me
to think of using .TQ as the terminator for .TO!

Thanks, and best wishes,
Ted.


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Date: 24-Dec-03                                       Time: 15:18:53
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