Re: [Groff] An observation on .writem

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Having read Werner's mail about .writem, I started to think about
> what that request was meant to do. I tried this
> 
> .di xx
> bla bbla bad rwqereq 
> fdas
> fdasaf fdasf
> fda
> .di
> .open macro tmac.blah
> .writem macro xx
> .writem macro LP
> 
> and formatted using -ms
> 
> gtroff wrote nicely the macro LP (just the content, not the .de -
> .. bit), but not the diverted text. This is not a question, but
> rather an observation. .writem isn't for diversions (or possibly,
> it's a bug.  After all, noone has been using it.).

If you use the .asciify request you can even write out diversions to
some extent.


    Werner