Re: [Groff] howto pass args to macro

[Clarke Echols]

I don't know if I'm missing something obvious in the question...

If your source file defines macro P as stated, why not:

.de P
\\$1 \\$2 \\$3
..

then in the text file:

.P "a b c" "d e" "f g h i"

Whitespace is inserted by the macro between \\$1, \\$2, and \\$3.

This is similar to how it's done by .I, .B, .BI, .BR, etc. macros
in the man macros I used back in the 1990s.

Clarke



Richard Ray wrote:
> I want to pass multiple arguments to a macro and each argument may be 
> composed of multiple words/characters
> I figured out this works but is there a way without defining individual 
> strings
>
> .nf
> .de P
> \\*[\\$1]
> \\*[\\$2]
> \\*[\\$3]
> ..
> .
> .ds x a b c
> .ds y d e
> .ds z f g h i
> .P x y z
>
> Richard