Re: [Groff] string variable in pic

[Werner LEMBERG]

> 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