Re: [Groff] soelim outdated

[Nicola Bernardini]

Sunday, Werner LEMBERG schrieb:

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> Three months ago this has been discussed already:

sorry about this repetition, but I think it's necessary to clarify a bit...

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> I thought that was the difference between "so" and "mso"--that "mso"
> searched paths in the GROFF_TMAC_PATH while "so" didn't; but I must
> have misunderstood the documentation.  Anyway you are right.  I want
> an "so" that reads paths from some environment variable.  So "so"
> behaves with respect to "GROFF_INPUT_PATH" as "\input" behaves with
> respect to "TEXINPUTS".

well, I did a little test:

                        .so             .mso

GROFF_INPUT_PATH        no              no
GROFF_TMAC_PATH         no              yes

no means 'does not work with inclusion to some other directory which
is not either the current or the standard tmac dir'

yes means the opposite

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> 
> I think this is what you want -- patches are highly welcome :-)

I sometimes need the ability to include extra bits of text (which may
not be macros) which lie on personal directories etc. I generally do
it with the -M option, and with .mso it works quite well (*except* for
soelim).

> Can you please explain why you think that \V needs to be expanded by
> soelim?

here's an example: say that I have a situation like this (in fact I have
*plenty* of situations like this :)

.mso \V[SPECIAL_DIR]/some-file

it'll work for groff, but not for soelim :(

> And of course we are interested in further suggestions...

well I'll try to find the time and propose you some patches...

Nicola

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