Hi Bjarni,
You present too long a list, and that may be putting off people from
attempting to reply, but I think the general answer is "no".
> an-old.tmac:. tm `R' is a string (producing the registered sign), not a
> macro.
> devices/grodvi/dvi.cpp: error("unrecognised drawing command `%1'",
> char(code));
> devices/grops/ps.cpp:// `pl' is in inches
> preproc/eqn/lex.cpp: lex_error("`\\' ignored at end of equation");
«`foo'» in a comment harms no one. I've seen some commands use 'foo' in
their error messages, or ‘foo’, depending on the locale. The former
avoids having to vary.
> B) There are too many manuals (man pages) that contain a syntax error
> that is not seen because
>
> a) The user does not use '-ww'
Discuss with automake whether the normal `check' target could grow to
understand there are man-page sources?
> d) Compatibility mode is removed
There's too many old documents that users still wish to format.
> e) All warnings are issued unconditionally
Are there any that give false positives?
> f) No (special) warning can be suppressed or chosen (with -E, -w...,
> '-W ...', or the request '.warn ...').
Again, breaks formatting of old documents if stderr is being checked.
> g) All warnings are made to be errors and processing stopped
> immediately.
You'll be lynched. :-)
> h) Make the default page size be A4 (a4).
>
> i) Adjust default sizes to the metric system.
>
> j) Use a metric point as default. 1 such point is then 375
> micrometres (15 x 250 um) or about 1 didot-point (0.376 mm).
No, compatibility, ditto many other suggestions.
> m) Change ``...'' to "...". Directional quotation mark are not useful
> in comments, output to the standard error, or output that is not
> processed by "groff" itself. Applies also to "groff".
I agree on stderr, it shouldn't see «``foo''».
> o) Use the .ig request for longer (4-5 lines) comments, like
No, .ig is read in copy-mode.
$ printf '%s\n' '.nr n 42 +1' '.tm \nn' .ig '\n+n' .. '.tm \nn' |
> nroff >/dev/null
42
43
$
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