Re: [Groff] gtroff & soelim don't recognize ~ in paths

[Larry Kollar]

Werner LEMBERG asked, perhaps rhetorically:

> Why on earth do you expect tilde expansion
> within groff?

I'm used to it working in vi(m) and I seem to remember it working in  
awk. I've also seen it work in X11-based file dialogs. Over time, I  
suppose I've come to assume that ~ was a Un*x idiom rather than a  
shell idiom.

> Do this instead:
>
>   .so \V[HOME]/Library/XSL/html2ms.xsl

That should do it -- thanks for the pointer. I really need to get a  
cheat sheet together....

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