Re: [SPAM] RE: [Groff] Extending .tm to allow for file handles

2010-02-18 Thread Mike Bianchi
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 08:38:17PM -0500, Tom Borawski wrote: > : > Thanks to all the Groff developers. You have no idea of how useful > you have turned what is possibly the oldest continuously used software > package. Amen. As a continuous user of n/t/groff since 1974 I also am most appreci

[Groff] Another namespace issue (tbl vs. hdtbl)

2010-02-18 Thread Larry Kollar
Multi-page tbl tables don't like getting hdtbl pulled in -- both of them use .TH and groff hangs at the first tbl usage of .TH. Yes, there are situations where you might want to mix tbl and hdtbl tables in a single document -- for example, in a transition from one to another, or you might m

Re: [Groff] Extending .tm to allow for file handles

2010-02-18 Thread Larry Kollar
Tom Borawski wrote: I was wondering if their is any possibility having .tm write to anything other than STDOUT ? It would make managing forward references (when used with 2 groff passes) much easier. In my Makefile, I use 2> to redirect stderr to a file: groff $(FLAGS) -rTocGen=1 -z

Re: [Groff] Extending .tm to allow for file handles

2010-02-18 Thread Robert Thorsby
On 19/02/10 06:04:13, Larry Kollar wrote: > In my Makefile, I use 2> to redirect stderr to a file: > > groff $(FLAGS) -rTocGen=1 -z stuff bookfile.ms 2>bookfile.aux > ## do stuff with the aux file ## > groff $(FLAGS) stuff bookfile.ms >bookfile.ps 2>bookfile.err > > The TocGen r

Re: [Groff] Extending .tm to allow for file handles-- The ulterior motive revealed

2010-02-18 Thread Tom Borawski
Larry I guess I should confess my ulterior motive: the addition of a generalized set of macros to support the integration of perl into groff. As a background-- I recently used the whole toolchain on a recent project. That includes Refer and pdfmark. I also attempted to produce both pdf and html