Follow-up Comment #1, bug #66864 (group groff): [comment #0 original submission:] > First, let's establish that this is a low-priority item.
No argument.
> Approximate output is a form of debugging output.
It's accurate to call it a previewing tool or a developer's tool (or, I guess
the equivalent for someone who develops using roff, a typographer's tool). I
think calling it a debugging tool shortchanges it, as it has uses beyond
what's traditionally considered debugging. Especially when piped through
subsequent commands or scripts, approximate output gives the user power to
improve the typeset output, not merely to find bugs in it. (For instance, I
have a two-line perl script that reads "groff -a" output and lists all pages
beginning with a widow.) See item 2 of the original submission of bug #55278
(and email threads that it links to).
None of this raises the priority of this ticket; I just want to squelch the
idea that -a output is limited to debugging.
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