> I have found out a way to do it -- essentially, you use the macro
> mechanism, but the trick is to define the macro so that the
> quotation marks are included in the replacement text.
>
> To take your simple box example as illustration:
>
> .PS
> define bcolor { "red" }
>
> define cbox {
> box wid $1 color bcolor
> }
> .PE
> .PS
> cbox(1) "this is red"
> define bcolor { "yellow" }
> cbox(1) "this is yellow"
> .PE
>
> This ensures that occurrences of
>
> bcolor
>
> are replaced by
>
> "red"
>
> or
>
> "yellow"
>
> *including* the quotation marks!
Very nice! Ted, can you take pic.ms and add this trick to it, please?
Werner
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