Re: [Groff] strings with arguments

[Bernd Warken]

On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 06:50:47AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> The only clean solution to this
> problem would be to introduce a new variant of the `de' request to
> define inline macros.

Is there a possibility to copy a macro code to another macro (not by 
aliasing)?  Then one could chop the second macro and use the suitable
one in different situations.  For example:

.de example
.  nop ok
..
.copy_macro_from exampl example
.chop exampl
It is
.example
to define t\*[exampl]ens.

Bernd Warken