Re: [Groff] grog Using groff.

[Werner LEMBERG]

> The only idea I have at the moment is to have groff associate a
> number with each stage of the command line to define the order, and
> the new command line option would be able to specify the position
> with a --long-opt to list all of groff's built in ones.
> 
>     $ groff --long-opt
>      100 soelim
>      200 refer
>      300 grap
>      400 pic
>      500 100 tbl
>      600 grn
>      700 eqn
>      800 troff
>      900 post
>     1000 spool
>     $ groff -? g3 350 -p
> 
> Not great, but then grog and groff are both in the business of
> hiding the yucky stuff from the user.

This is a *very* nice idea!  Omega, a TeX successor, uses a similar
technique.  I'll add this to my TODO list.


    Werner