Re: [Groff] grog and mom.

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Werner,

> > OK, I'll work on improving grog.sh and making it the only
> > implementation.  I was thinking, some kind of debug/verbose option
> > that spits out what it saw in its input would be handy for when
> > people say `it got it wrong'.
> 
> Nice idea!  You mean this?
> 
>   grog --debug foo.bar
> 
>     Found macro `.foobar' in line 123 -> -m xyz
>     Found macro `.PS' in line 234 -> -p
>     ...
> 
>   groff -p -m xyz foo.bar

That's the kind of thing, although it would probably be more a frequency
count of the patterns found, and then later the triggered rules, based
on those counts, and the changes they made to the command line.

    grog --debug foo.bar
    /^\.foobar/ 3
    /^\.PS/ 5
    
    /^\.PS/ implies -p
    /^\.foobar/ implies -m xyz
    groff -p -m xyz foo.bar

Cheers,


Ralph.