> I am pretty stunned. It's not clear to me why current software has > such crude limitations with one must circumvent with even more crude > wordarounds.
TeX is even worse... > What about enhancing groff and trowing out these limitations? At > least in non-compatible mode there should be no problem, in > compatible-mode the limitations could stay for people who rely on > this limitations. Do you volunteer? You might have a look at heirloom troff's implementation which already has such an extension; it makes absolutely no sense to program something differently. http://heirloom.sourceforge.net Werner