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Re: An extremely lazy proposal
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Dave Kemper |
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Re: An extremely lazy proposal |
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Tue, 26 Mar 2024 04:20:04 -0500 |
On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 5:24 PM G. Branden Robinson
<g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
> My view is expressed in groff(1):
...
> An even easier way to do this is to use grog(1) to guess the
> preprocessor and macro options and execute the result by using
> the command substitution feature of the shell.
>
> $(grog -Tutf8 foo.me)
It occurs to me a year too late that the single-sentence NEWS item of
groffer's passing might have benefited from an additional sentence
mentioning the above, or pointing to this passage in groff(1). The
command above is essentially a replacement for groffer with weirder
(but more flexible) syntax.