RE: [Groff] .cf and .trf

[Sigfrid Lundberg, Netlab]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 address@hidden wrote:

> On 30-Aug-01 Sigfrid Lundberg, Netlab wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 address@hidden wrote:
> >> you write out the lines you want, close the file, use the ".sy"
> >> request to run say 'tbl' on the external file redirecting output to
> >> another file, then use ".so" to import this output).
> > 
> > I use .open/.write together with .so a lot for indexing, cross
> > rererences and the like. I understand those ones, and .sy as used in,
> > say, the .PSPIC macro. I have to play around with these to understand
> > what they do, which .so doesn't.
> 
> Sorry, Sigge, I don't understand your last sentence here. Can you
> explain? And how does this relate to your query about ".trf"?

I suppose I wanted to say that .so and .open(a) and their .write are easy
to understand. I do not understand, though, how .so differ from .trf. And
the reason for that is that I haven't, really, understood understood the
difference between a diversion and a macro.


Sigge