[self-follow-up] At 2022-07-16T02:21:49-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > groff man(7) in groff Git behaves pretty badly if `TH` is omitted, > whereas groff 1.22.4 degrades much more gracefully.
I was incorrect about this. I was comparing 1.22.4's "groff -mandoc" to Git HEAD's "groff -ww -man". We might recall (I didn't, at first) that "an.tmac" is no longer a wrapper for andoc.tmac, but the actual groff man(7) implementation. And of course in one case I asked for more warnings. A pair of fair comparisons would be: 1.22.4 groff -ww -mandoc HEAD groff -ww -mandoc and 1.22.4 groff -man-old HEAD groff -man And these indeed have comparable output both in content and diagnostic messages. Skipping andoc, in either version, elicits noticeable distress from the formatter when terminal output devices are used. I had been preparing a "normal" Savannah ticket about this, but this finding demotes it to "wish" severity since this is in no sense a regression. Regards, Branden
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