From 5aebd3459372e6dad6077f9b9f29221baada16b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tucker Johnson <tucker@newer.systems>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 17:44:28 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] getcomp

---
 scripts/getcomproot | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 scripts/getcomproot

diff --git a/scripts/getcomproot b/scripts/getcomproot
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..d34a2e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/getcomproot
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# A helper script for LaTeX/groff files used by `compiler` and `opout`.
+# The user can add the root file of a larger project as a comment as below:
+# % root = mainfile.tex
+# And the compiler script will run on that instead of the opened file.
+
+texroot="$(grep -i "^.\+\s*root\s*=\s*\S\+" "$1")"
+texroot="${texroot##*=}"
+texroot="${texroot//[\"\' ]}"
+
+[ -f "$texroot" ] && readlink -f "$texroot" || exit 1
-- 
2.39.5