At 2023-04-06T10:39:13+0000, Lennart Jablonka wrote:
> Then comes the noteworthy bit: Concatenate the troff output of all
> those separate documents and feed it all to the postprocessor at once,
> as in
>
> troff -ms mainmatter.ms >mainmatter.trout 2>toc
> { troff frontmatter && troff toc && cat mainmatter.trout; } |
> gropdf
> >all.pdf
>
> That’s what I would do.I must say I am delighted to see that it has occurred to someone else to use the suffixes "trout" (and presumably "grout") for device-independent troff and GNU roff output. When I get around to my planned soup-to-nuts revision of groff_out(5), I know I will be mightily tempted to encourage others to adopt the practice, in large part because "device-independent [gt]roff] output" is far too long to type or speak repeatedly. Regards, Branden
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