Re: using .so in a macro

[Riza Dindir]

Thank you all for the information.

On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 9:41 PM Oliver Marti <olivermarti.tux@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hy Riza
>
> Soelim is just like cat but it "eliminates" the .so, which can cause utf-8 
> malfunctions (it basically puts the whole file together as one without 
> ignoring e.g. preconv or other piping functions).
>
> I think you can just use soelim main.ms | ... | groff -ms -Tps > output.ps. 
> cat seems to be redundant here.
>
> Or even put pic and tbl directly to the groff line (soelim main.ms | groff 
> -ms -pic -tb -Tps > output).
>
> Greetings,
> Oliver
> (non-expert)
>
>
>
> Riza Dindir <riza.dindir@gmail.com> schrieb am Do., 16. Feb. 2023, 15:31:
>>
>> Hello Ralph,
>>
>> I was using soelim in my pipeline (cat main.ms | soelim | pic | tbl |
>> groff -ms > main.ps). The problem was with soelim. I did not realize
>> that. I first had it with double slashes, but then tried with four
>> slashes... Removing soelim from the pipeline resolved the problem.
>>
>> What is soelim used for? Since troff has the .so command, it must be
>> used for a special purpose.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 1:05 PM Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello Riza,
>> >
>> > > Is it possible to use the ".so" command in a macro, and pass in an
>> > > argument from the macro.
>> > >
>> > > .de MC
>> > > .so \\\\$1
>> > > ..
>> > >
>> > > .MC file.txt
>> >
>> > Yes.
>> >
>> >     $ cat >foo
>> >     .de source
>> >     .so \\$1
>> >     ..
>> >     foo
>> >     .source bar
>> >     foo
>> >     ^D
>> >     $
>> >     $ cat >bar
>> >     bar
>> >     ^D
>> >     $
>> >     $ nroff foo | grep .
>> >     foo bar foo
>> >     $
>> >
>> > You're escaping the ‘$’ too much.  You're seeing:
>> >
>> >     $ nroff foo | grep .
>> >     troff: foo:5: can't open '\$1': No such file or directory
>> >     foo foo
>> >     $
>> >
>> > --
>> > Cheers, Ralph.
>>