Follow-up Comment #9, bug #60655 (project groff):
[comment #8 comment #8:]
> I think there was a message on here recently which highlighted
> how few letters were left for flags,
You're likely thinking of the discussion in bug #60571, which catalogued the
remaining letters available for new in-document escapes. I mentioned Unix
command-line switches in passing as a related general concern, but a shortage
related to groff in particular was never brought up as an issue.
It's true that the groff command itself has nearly used up its single-letter
switch allotment, but grops and gropdf have plenty of available slots.
Still, no point in burning through them willy-nilly: maybe these two new
filters under consideration could be clumped under the same option, taking a
parameter (like grops' -b option does) specifying what to filter. (For grops
in particular, the existing -b option could even be extended to cover this,
but that would alter its semantics, as the things it currently filters all
have compatibility implications.)
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