Re: [Groff] soelim outdated

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > 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

Of course it doesn't work since it isn't implemented...

> 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).

Again, I think this is an abuse of .mso, and a GROFF_INPUT_PATH
feature should be introduced.


    Werner