[Groff] getopt() as gtroff macro ?

[Heinz-Jürgen Oertel]

Am Freitag, 17. September 2004 16:22 schrieben Sie:
> > There seems to be a difference between the comments describing the
> > syntax and the current implementation of the .IMG and .PIMG
> > macros. [...]
> >
> > The best would be to adapt the macros to the documentation.
>
> I fully agree.
>
> > But how many text is written already?
>
> Not much I believe, otherwise somebody would have already reported the
> bug.
>
> > Changing the behavior of IMG would break existing code, changing
> > PIMG not.
>
> Just go ahead and fix the macros!
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>     Werner

More and more gtroff macros needs to handle arguments in a generic way.
Is there something like getopt(3) available, may be already implemented in 
some other macro packages, ms, me, mm, or the more modern ones like mom?

Regards
 Heinz

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