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Re: A Modest Proposal

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From: Anil Trivedi
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 07:37
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royce@splunge.uucp (Royce Howland) writes:

 > Troff is problematic, because you can't do a program's inline docs using
 > it.  One of the points of all this seamless integration stuff is to
 > reduce the amount of work you have to do.  Who wants to write documentation
 > twice, once for inline and once for external, when the same documentation
 > can suffice for both?...

If you are considering such formatters as troff, why not consider TeX?
I am not sure what it is exactly that you want to do, but it *is* possible
to write TeX macros which will process/ignore different portions of your
file, depending on style declarations, say \internal and \external :-)

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