On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 15:41:42 -0500 Richard Morse <pu...@mac.com> wrote:
> The roff file is being generated by a program, and for a few reasons, > it would be much easier to have the program generate one output file, > and then run Groff on the single file. Is there someway, perhaps > using the mysterious ?I/O? requests, to have the roff file change the > output file through out? Sounds like a job for awk, Richard? How is groff supposed to know when to start a new output file? If it's on page breaks, I would read the giant file with awk, and begin copying to 1.ms. When it hits .bp, open 2.ms, and so on. The call groff with the generated inputs using a 3-line Make file for parallelism. I'm interested if that wouldn't work, because I've never used groff in a production environment where I didn't control the input. --jkl
