question about m4 - macro preprocessor

Wed Nov 28 00:02:37 AEST 1990

In article <3201 at mrsvr.UUCP>, carl at gemed (Carl Crawford) writes:
> i am using the macro preprocessor m4 with files that are
> subsequently passed to troff. m4 replaces lines that 
> contain m4 commands with blank lines. the blank lines
> disrupt the text that is passed to troff. does anyone know 
> how to run m4 so that the blank lines can be eliminated?

it's easy -- add "dnl" to the end of each m4 macro definition.
this deletes the newline that otherwise automatically follows
the definition.

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