Dear All, my intention is to write a form letter mechanism that produces invoices. I want to select from a number of predefined recipients and set up an invoice which is filled with items like:
Item Value (EUR) A 100 B 200 ========= Sum: 300 I thought of using .rd to read Items and Values from stdin, perhaps with a prompt. If I say .rd Item I get the prompt "Item:" and can enter a name. However, the input then becomes immediate part of the text (analogue to .so). At the moment I am stuck with passing the values read by .rd to anything but immediate text. However, I'd like to store the keyboard input read by .rd to strings so I can construct a tbl with the collected data. I searched man 7 groff which only states "Read insertion" for .rd, the texinfo manual has more information but I cannot find information on how to absorb the input read by .rd into a variable. Thanks a lot for any hint! Best, Oliver. -- Dr. Oliver Corff mailto:oliver.co...@email.de
