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Re: [Groff] Oddities in mm - solved
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Larry Kollar |
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Re: [Groff] Oddities in mm - solved |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Sep 2002 22:02:44 -0400 |
Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > I think that using grep for removing a second -mm on groff's command
> > line is not necessary at all due to the following line in m.tmac:
> >
> > .do if d PH .nx
> >
> > This will skip m.tmac if `PH' has been already defined.
> There was someone asking if -mm's reference macros were usable with
> other macros, like -ms, given they seemed to be fairly modular. The
> `Ref' number register system seems to be generic so it may be useful to
> have mmroff really be `xrefroff' and rely on the caller specifying the
> -mm. That way, if -ms ever expanded to `.mso xref...' then xrefroff
> would work for both.
So break out the xref/index macros into their own package, which
can be used by any other package? Sounds like a worthwhile idea!
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Larry Kollar k o l l a r at a l l t e l . n e t
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