Re: [Groff] Line continuation

[Miklos Somogyi]

Hello Ralph,

Since I need to do this thing far too many times, your idea of a  
preprocessor seems just great.
I don't know about sed but wrote a few scripts in perl (or Perl?), so  
this would be an easy job.

And it could be placed under the jurisdiction of my groff alias that  
does a couple of other things anyway.
Thanks for the idea very much.

Regards,

Miklos

On 26/10/2008, at 09:26 PM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:

> Hi Miklos,
>
> >    xxx  yyyy  wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
> >    xxx  yyyy  wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
> >    xxx  yyyy  wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww\
> >    wwwwwwwwwwwwwww
> >    xxx   yyyy  wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
> >
> > I would like to push the remainder of wwwww to the right so as not to
> > obscure the  xxx  yyyy structure and ask groff to please disregard  
> > all
> > these leading spaces alongside with the  linefeed.
>
> I'd be tempted to have a simple preprocessor that joins these lines up
> before groff seems them.
>
>    $ cat miklos
>    line 1
>    line 2
>    line 3 contin--
>                 ued here.
>    line 4 also carr--
>                    ies on, --
>                            and on, --
>                                    and on.
>    line 5 is at the end of the file--
>    $ sed ':l;/--$/{N;s/--\n *//;b l}' <miklos
>    line 1
>    line 2
>    line 3 continued here.
>    line 4 also carries on, and on, and on.
>    line 5 is at the end of the file--
>    $
>
> I've used `--' at the end of the line to try and avoid trampling on
> anything else, but it's simple to change.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Ralph.