Re: [Groff] Playing with the postscript output

[Tadziu Hoffmann]

> I want to put two of them on one page. Of course, I could
> write the groff code twice, or make an EPS file and include
> twice the EPS code in my document, but I would like to know
> if I can play with the postscript like that:
> 
> My postscript file is:
> 
> %%BeginPageSetup
> BP
> %%EndPageSetup
> 
>   % the whole stuff
> 
> EP
> 
> Is it possible to make of "the whole stuff" a postscript macro
> with something like:
> 
> /myprettycard {
>   % the whole stuff
> } def
> myprettycard
>   % some translate code
> myprettycard
> 
> Why do I want to do that? Because "the whole stuff" is a
> pretty big stuff with pictures in it, and I want to make a
> smaller postscript file by playing with macros. Of course
> I could have asked on comp.lang.postscript, but I thought
> groffers would know better what the postscript output is
> made of ;-)
> 
> Do you think it is possible ?

Yes, that's exactly how to do it.
(Only in PostScript it's not macros,
but procedures (aka executable arrays).