On 15/12/23 14:14, Damian McGuckin wrote:
There are times when I prefer to use other tools like simple Python to
do some of the harder work such as creating alternate/multiple documents
from some master depending on the scenario.
A lot of the documentation for Documenters Workbench 3.3, the most
recent version of groff and friends from Plan 9, is available. The
documentation is written in itself.
Of course, you are correct.
What a lot of newcomers don't realize (and everyone else sometimes
forgets) is that a [gt]roff input file is a simple text file. If the
input file is written in a civilized fashion it can be torn apart by
whatever text parsing tool you care to use.
Sorry Damian, I couldn't resist the epilogue.
Robert
A computing laddie from Dundee
Once wrote a program in P... .
But it ran quicker in ed,
And much better in sed,
So he rewrote the damned thing in C.
