Re: [idea] troff -Troff

[Larry Kollar]

I’m a little late to the party, but I’ve read Alex’s original post over several 
times, and I have to wonder if everyone is over-thinking this.

> On Feb 16, 2024, at 10:21 AM, Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Branden!
> 
> I've been thinking about a suggestion I've done in the past.  I wanted a
> program that reads man(7) source and produces roff(7) source, so that it
> can later be passed to troff(1), thus splitting the groff(1) pipeline a
> bit more.  The idea is similar to how eqn(1) and other pre-troff filters
> do their job.

There has to be a phase during which (g)troff interprets the macros and 
produces roff(7) to feed to the main processor. Would it be possible to add a 
new command line option (like —roff) that simply dumps the input with macros 
applied, then stops?

— Larry