Follow-up Comment #2, bug #64728 (project groff):
Yes, the output of groff looks the same as Heirloom Doctools troff/nroff, both
with terminal output and PostScript output. (I think this is what you are
asking for?)
A bit more playing around made me suspect 342–346 in src/preproc/eqn/box.cpp
(in
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #64758 (project groff):
[comment #2 comment #2:]
> The problem here is, what if people linked to a node in the
> groff 1.22.4 Texinfo manual that didn't have any content in it?
>
> That seems unlikely.
Right, it's an edge case.
> And working around it by _adding_ a del