NAME
roffpp - replace .so requests within *roff sources
SYNOPSIS
roffpp [ option... ][ infile [ outfile ]]
roffpp -Help
roffpp -VERSion
DESCRIPTION
The roffpp command may be used to copies the input file to the output
file, including files named using .so directives along the way, and
removing the .so directives.
This is useful when processing large multi-file documents with filters
such as tbl(1) or eqn(1) which do not understand the .so directive.
The .nx directive is not understood. The roffpp program is not a
general *roff interpreter, so many constructs will be beyond it,
fortunately, most of them have nothing to do with include files.
Include files which cannot be found, probably from uninterpreted *roff
constructs, if the files really does exist, will simply be passed
through unchanged, for *roff to interpret at a later time.
The roffpp program also allows the user to specify an include search
path. This allows, for example, common files to be kept in a central
location.
Only directives of the form
.so filename
are processed. If the directive is introduced using the single quote
form, or the dot is not the first character of the line, the directive
will be ignored.
Any extra arguments on the line are ignored, and quoting is not
understood. All characters are interpreted literally.
Examples of directives which will be ignored include
’so /usr/lib/tmac/tmac.an
.if n .so yuck
This list is not exhaustive.
The special file name ‘-’ on the command line means the standard input
or standard output, as appropriate. Files which are omitted are also
assumed to be the standard input or standard output, as appropriate.
The output attempts to keep file names and line numbers in sync by
using the .lf directive. The .lf directive is also understood as
input. This is compatible with groff(1) and the other GNU text
utilities included in the groff package.
OPTIONS
The following options are understood.
-Ipath
Specify include path, a la cc(1). Include paths are searched
in the order specified. The include search path defaults to
the current directory if and only if the user does not specify
any include search paths.
-Help
Give information on how to use roffpp.
-VERSion
Tell what version of roffpp is being run.
Any other option will generate a diagnostic error.
All options may be abbreviated; the abbreviation is documented as the
upper case letters, all lower case letters and underscores (_) are
optional. You must use consecutive sequences of optional letters.
All options are case insensitive, you may type them in upper case or
lower case or a combination of both, case is not important.
For example: the arguments "-help", "-HEL" and "-h" are all
interpreted to mean the -Help option. The argument "-hlp" will not be
understood, because consecutive optional characters were not supplied.
Options and other command line arguments may be mixed arbitrarily on
the command line.
The GNU long option names are understood. Since all option names for
roffpp are long, this means ignoring the extra leading ’-’. The
"--option=value" convention is also understood.
EXIT STATUS
The roffpp command will exit with a status of 1 on any error. The
roffpp command will only exit with a status of 0 if there are no
errors.
COPYRIGHT
roffpp version 2.33
Copyright (C) 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996,
1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007,
2008, 2009 Peter Miller
The roffpp program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use
the ’roffpp -VERSion License’ command. This is free software and you
are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; for details
use the ’roffpp -VERSion License’ command.
AUTHOR
Peter Miller E-Mail: pmiller@opensource.org.au
/\/\* WWW: http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/