Follow-up Comment #10, bug #67711 (group groff): At 2025-11-17T16:55:31-0500, Dave wrote: > Follow-up Comment #8, bug #67711 (group groff): > > [comment #5 comment #5:] >> then we would not see this output (groff Git HEAD). > > Yeah, I don't know how else to explain why this output makes sense. > You're setting a flag on Fred, then querying the parameters of Barney, > and are surprised when your query doesn't show a property of Fred.
Barney contains Fred. That's what Werner said Fred was for. (Moreover,
I submit, Barney exists _only_ as a container, and has no properties of
his own, apart from a name.)
* The new `class' request assigns a short name to a set of characters
which can be referred to in the `cflags' request. This is especially
useful to control line-breaking and hyphenation rules in CJK
languages.
>
>> It is simply a shorthand for lists of characters.
>
> Nothing about either the way it works, or the results of your .pchar
> experiment, supports this premise.
The wording of Werner's NEWS item does. Maybe we need to consult him.
> I still agree the documentation could be clearer about this.
Oh, aye, said the dwarf in a Scottish accent, but then you knew that
because all fantasy dwarves speak with Scottish accents because the
genre has a lot of originality.
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