URL:
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64684>
Summary: [nroff] would like support for option clusters
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Sat 16 Sep 2023 10:59:55 PM UTC
Category: Core
Severity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: Feature change
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Follow-up Comments:
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Date: Sat 16 Sep 2023 10:59:55 PM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
This is unfortunate.
$ groff -atz ./EXPERIMENTS/simple-table.roff # successful
$ nroff -atz ./EXPERIMENTS/simple-table.roff
/home/branden/groff-stable/bin/nroff: usage error: invalid option '-at'
usage: /home/branden/groff-stable/bin/nroff [-bcCEhikpRStUVz] [-d ctext] [-d
string=text] [-K fallback-encoding] [-m macro-package] [-M macro-directory]
[-n page-number] [-o page-list] [-P postprocessor-argument] [-r
cnumeric-expression] [-r register=numeric-expression] [-T output-device] [-w
warning-category] [-W warning-category] [file ...]
usage: /home/branden/groff-stable/bin/nroff {-v | --version}
usage: /home/branden/groff-stable/bin/nroff --help
Might be tricky to handle in a shell script. Could require recursive parsing,
or "unshifting" arguments onto the list in addition to the well-trodden ground
of shifting them off.
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