> Does anyone know why the latest version of groff in Debian and [K] > ubuntu is 1.18.1 (incorporating version 1.1.4 of Peter Schaffter's mom > macros)?
Because they use a hack for Japanese which I've refused to incorporate into 1.19. Unfortunately, progress w.r.t. good Japanese (TTY) support is still far away; if you look up the mailing lists you can see what has to be done (this is, to implement glyph classes which share the same properties). I'm slowly getting nearer to a new groff release. However, it's just me basically working on this -- for example, cleaning up the copyright stuff eats a huge amount of my time which I can afford for maintaining groff... Werner