Hello Ralph,
Since I need to do this thing far too many times, your idea of a
preprocessor seems just great.
I don't know about sed but wrote a few scripts in perl (or Perl?), so
this would be an easy job.
And it could be placed under the jurisdiction of my groff alias that
does a couple of other things anyway.
Thanks for the idea very much.
Regards,
Miklos
On 26/10/2008, at 09:26 PM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Miklos,
xxx yyyy wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
xxx yyyy wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
xxx yyyy wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww\
wwwwwwwwwwwwwww
xxx yyyy wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
I would like to push the remainder of wwwww to the right so as not to
obscure the xxx yyyy structure and ask groff to please disregard
all
these leading spaces alongside with the linefeed.
I'd be tempted to have a simple preprocessor that joins these lines up
before groff seems them.
$ cat miklos
line 1
line 2
line 3 contin--
ued here.
line 4 also carr--
ies on, --
and on, --
and on.
line 5 is at the end of the file--
$ sed ':l;/--$/{N;s/--\n *//;b l}' <miklos
line 1
line 2
line 3 continued here.
line 4 also carries on, and on, and on.
line 5 is at the end of the file--
$
I've used `--' at the end of the line to try and avoid trampling on
anything else, but it's simple to change.
Cheers,
Ralph.
