Re: [Groff] Included files are not preprocessed

[Anton Shepelev]

Ralph Corderoy:

> >     mmst1:                   tr -d  15 < [infile]| groff -s -Kcp1251 -t 
> > -Tutf8>[outfile].txt
> >     mmst2: soelim [infile] | tr -d  15           | groff    -Kcp1251 -t 
> > -Tutf8>[outfile].txt
> >
> > With  the included test file (test.mm) the first
> > call   seems   to   ignore   iconv    processing
> > (res1.txt),  while  the  second one works as ex-
> > pected, producing a correctly encoded UTF-8 file
> > (res2.txt).
>
> Does  groff's  -V  option help?  It shows the con-
> structed pipeline.
>
>     $ groff -V -Kcp1251 -t -Tutf8
>     preconv -ecp1251 | tbl | troff -Tutf8 | grotty
>     $ groff -V -s -Kcp1251 -t -Tutf8
>     preconv -ecp1251 | soelim | tbl | troff -Tutf8 | grotty
>
> The preconv has happened before soelim  if  -s  is
> used whereas when you run it manually, it's after.

Thank  you,  Ralph.   I  forgot about the -V option.
Now the question is whether this sequence is correct
or  should  be changed so that soelim will be called
before all other preprocessors.  After all, soelim's
very purpose is to preprocess included files...

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