Re: [Groff] groff ms: Is there an order to setting PS and VS versus PO and LL

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Larry,

> I often include a comment near the top of any *roff file with the
> expected command line options, for when I haven't touched it in a week
> or more and forgot what I used.

I do similar, starting the file

    .\" f=foo.inv && ./fmtitem $f.tr | groff -t | ps2pdf - $f.pdf
    .\" exit
    .

and then doing

    sed s/...// foo.inv.tr | sh

to run it.  If things get more complex, then there's normally a makefile
that knows the dependencies.

Cheers, Ralph.