On 16-Feb-10 09:34:58, Tadziu Hoffmann 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. > > Instead of .tm you should use ".write <stream> <stuff>", > which does exactly what you want. (A stream is like a > filehandle, use ".open <stream> <filename>" to connect > the stream to a file first.)
Tadziu has pointed out the essence of the matter! What I was writing before (when I got cut off) was essentially: >From the form of your question, it would seem that you want to save the information in \*[reference-info] to an external file, to be read back in on the second pass. There is a family of groff requests for this kind of thing. In 'info groff' see the requests: - Request: .open stream file - Request: .opena stream file - Request: .write stream data - Request: .writec stream data - Request: .writem stream xx - Request: .close stream (perhaps especially .writem -- see below); and also look at the example given just below ".close" which illustrates how to write an index entry to an external file. Something like .open refstream reffile.txt .writem refstream reference-info .close refstream will probably do what you want. In the above, the parameter "stream" is an arbitrary name (I have used "refstream") serving to identify an output stream which has been opened; this name is then released when ".close" is executed. "file" is the name of the file which you attach to "stream" for writing. "xx" is the name of a groff macro or string (in your case \*[reference-info], so xx = reference-info). You will need to run groff in "unsafe" mode (option -U) for these to work. Use ".opena" to append to an existing file (since ".open" would cause an existing file to be over-written). Hoping this helps, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[email protected]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 16-Feb-10 Time: 10:19:26 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
