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Re: Guitar TABs


From: Dave Kemper
Subject: Re: Guitar TABs
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 02:10:44 -0500

On 6/15/21, Wim Stockman <wim.stockman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I have a bunch of guitar tabs in plain text.
> They consist of 4 lines that need to be grouped together.
> So how can I tell groff when going to the next line the next line is 4
> lines

There may be a clever way to do this in groff, but my first impulse
would be to run the input through a script (sed, perl, whatever you
find easiest for manipulating text) to group it the way you want it,
then pipe that script's output to groff.  Having a custom preprocessor
insert a simple begin/end macro pair around each four-line block
should be sufficient to group the items in a way groff can see, but
you have the flexibility to do much more complex processing if needed
as well.



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