Re: [Groff] Oddball idea

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Would it be possible to do something like this?
> 
>       .mso m.tmac
>       .so ch01_overview.mm
>       .clear-the-world
>       .mso an.tmac
>       .so command1
>       .so command2
>       .so command3
>       .clear-the-world
>       .mso m.tmac
>       .so ch02_overview.mm
>       etc

There has been a similar request already, namely to mix man pages
written with `man' and `mandoc'.  Maybe I will try to handle this very
special case.

In general, what you suggest is not possible IMHO.  Consider material
collected in diversions (endnotes, index and bibliographic entries,
etc.) -- when shall they be output?  What about global typesetting
parameters?  If at all, such a macro change can only happen at a page
boundary, but then it is *much* easier to have a script which
concatenates the output of various groff runs.


    Werner