On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 03:03:48PM -0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
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> Please do not remove the -a option.
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No legacy option will be removed in "groff".
The modern version, I was talking about, is a new species (evolution)
in the roff-family, and thus needs a new name.
--
Bjarni I. Gisl
More catching up...
On 9/4/17, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2017-08-31T20:54:10+, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
>> p) Remove the '-a' option (the ASCII approximation output).
>
> I didn't even know this existed. Looking at what it spits out, I find
> myself wondering what good it is.
As o
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 03:03:48PM -0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> Subject: Re: [groff] [Groff] It is time to modernise "groff"
>
> On 9/4/17, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > At 2017-08-31T20:54:10+, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> >> p) Remove the '-a&
Sat, 2 Sep 2017 18:02:39 -0400 (Peter Schaffter ):
> On Sat, Sep 02, 2017, Blake McBride wrote:
> > Second, I don't think troff is gaining in popularity. The contrary is,
> > Lastly, as stated by others, troff has a substantial history. Significant
> > changes in troff could invalidate most of t
