Re: Using .[ and .] in a macro

2023-12-05 Thread Thomas Dupond via
Le 2023-12-03 à 07:47, hbezemer--- via a écrit : Dear all,I would like to create a macro along the lines of:.de CITE.[\\$2\\$1.]\\$3..Which would result in:.CITE The problem that arises is that refer sees the definition of the macro asa citation (of course).Is there an elegant way to get

Re: using .so in a macro

2023-02-16 Thread Riza Dindir
Thank you all for the information. On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 9:41 PM Oliver Marti wrote: > > Hy Riza > > Soelim is just like cat but it "eliminates" the .so, which can cause utf-8 > malfunctions (it basically puts the whole file together as one without > ignoring e.g. preconv or other piping

Re: using .so in a macro

2023-02-16 Thread Oliver Marti
Hy Riza Soelim is just like cat but it "eliminates" the .so, which can cause utf-8 malfunctions (it basically puts the whole file together as one without ignoring e.g. preconv or other piping functions). I think you can just use soelim main.ms | ... | groff -ms -Tps > output.ps. cat seems to be

Re: using .so in a macro

2023-02-16 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hello Riza, > Hello Ralph, > > cat main.ms | soelim | pic | tbl | groff -ms > main.ps ... > What is soelim used for? soelim(1) attempts to explain. It doesn't tend to be needed when one starts using troff but might be wanted in special cases later. Consider the difference between these two if

Re: using .so in a macro

2023-02-16 Thread Riza Dindir
Hello Ralph, I was using soelim in my pipeline (cat main.ms | soelim | pic | tbl | groff -ms > main.ps). The problem was with soelim. I did not realize that. I first had it with double slashes, but then tried with four slashes... Removing soelim from the pipeline resolved the problem. What is

Re: using .so in a macro

2023-02-16 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hello Riza, > Is it possible to use the ".so" command in a macro, and pass in an > argument from the macro. > > .de MC > .so $1 > .. > > .MC file.txt Yes. $ cat >foo .de source .so \\$1 .. foo .source bar foo ^D $ $ cat >bar bar ^D