Hi ulrich,
> As I reported earlier, I use the first line of a file to store hints
> about (pre)processng.
> Example:
> .\" mom tbl pdf
> and use a shell script to interpret this line and to control
> appropriate processing.
There's also groffer(1), though I don't know how well it does.
I often make the start of more complex troff source look like
.\" #! /bin/sh
.\" set -eu
.\" f=foo
.\" groff -ww -t -ma4 -mm -rmicro=0 $f.tr >$f.ps 2>$f.err
.\" sed -i '/\<warning: number register `3[^'\'']*'\'' not defined$/d'
$f.err
.\" ! grep ^ $f.err
.\" ps2pdf $f.ps
.\" rm $f.ps $f.err
.\" ...
.\" exit 0
Then I can either `sed s/...// foo.tr | sh', or copy-paste a rectangle
without the `.\"' using Ctrl-Button1 in some X terminals, or just use it
as a guide to the different one-off formatting I want to do.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
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